Steps to install mosquitto broker over websockets on Amazon Linux

[romuye123]

I am looking out for step by step guide to install mosquitto broker over websockets for Amazon Linux(AMI - ec2 instance).

1. I tried following these instructions(using mosquitto package with yum): http://blog.yatis.io/install-secure-robust-mosquitto-mqtt-broker-aws-ubuntu/

And i get following error: Starting Mosquitto MQTT brokerError: Websockets support not available.

2. I tried installing by downloading the source from Git and building (with following steps):

   
   git clone https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets.git
   cd libwebsockets
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc
   make
   sudo make install

wget http://mosquitto.org/files/source/mosquitto-1.4.10.tar.gz tar xvzf mosquitto-1.4.10.tar.gz cd mosquitto-1.4.10/ sudo nano config.mk Change WITH_WEBSOCKETS to yes make sudo make install sudo service mosquitto start

And i get following error:
`mosquitto: unrecognized service`

I have been following this issue on git since last few days:
[https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/538](https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/538)

**Unable to understand to how to install the mosquitto broker properly. Please help.**

[AdamMiltonBarker]

Well here is a doc I found yesterday, at the bottom there is info on Websockets on Amazon, maybe some helpful info there.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/protocols.html#mqtt-ws

Re the issue you are having with Websockets, try find if you have multiple versions of Mosquitto installed this was my issue in the issue you replied to, once I removed that it worked correctly. Here are some things I found just now that may help you:

https://medium.com/@achildrenmile/mqtt-broker-on-aws-ec2-hands-on-install-configure-test-out-f12dd2f5c9d0

http://blog.yatis.io/install-secure-robust-mosquitto-mqtt-broker-aws-ubuntu/

[AdamMiltonBarker]

I would make sure you remove everything you have installed so far in attempts to avoid conflicts, how I got into the situation in my issue was from upgrading the broker.