Mosquitto
Mosquitto is a lightweight open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol. Refer Mosquitto for more details
Set Up the Mosquitto Connection
Linux Environment
Install Mosquitto, using the command –>
sudo apt install Mosquitto
Copy file from https://github.com/eclipse/Mosquitto/blob/master/Mosquitto.conf and paste in linux machine.
Open the Mosquitto.conf file and include password_file (Mosquitto.pwd) in “General configuration”.
The password file contains the username and password in hashed format. To create your own username and password for Mosquitto use the following link.
In the section “Listeners” change listener
<port no.> <ip address of linux machine>
.In the same section find #protocol mqtt and uncomment it.
Follow Openssl Certificate Creation to create certificates.
Provide the required certificates path in the “Certificate based SSL/TLS support” and in the same section set the flag require_certification to
true
.In “Security” section change uncomment the flag allow_anonymous false.
Now that your configuration file is set save it and run the following command in terminal to run Mosquitto:-
Mosquitto -v -c Mosquitto.conf
Windows Environment
Install Mosquitto using the mosquitto download.
Open the Mosquitto.conf file and include password_file (Mosquitto.pwd) in “General configuration”.
The password file contains the username and password in hashed format. To create your own username and password for Mosquitto use the following link.
Next in section “Listeners” change listener
. In the same section find #protocol mqtt and uncomment it.
Follow Openssl Certificate Creation to create certificates.
Provide the required certificates path in the “Certificate based SSL/TLS support” and in the same section set the flag require_certification to
true
.In “Security” section change uncomment the flag allow_anonymous false.
Now that your configuration file is set save it and run the following command in terminal(command prompt) to run Mosquitto:-
Mosquitto -v -c Mosquitto.conf