1. Download and unzip the ActiveMQ http://activemq.apache.org/ 2. Go to the ActiveMQ home directory and create the instances as follows cd <ACTIVEMQ_HOME> ./bin/activemq create instanceA ./bin/activemq create instanceB 3. Do ls -l you can see two sub directories created as instanceA and instance B 4. Let instanceA to use the default config, modify the config of instanceB Go to the instanceB/conf folder and open the file jetty.xml to make the webconsole available at port '8162' <property name="connectors"> <list> <bean id="Connector" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector"> <property name="port" value="8162" /> </bean> ...