Django Celery - Cannot connect to amqp://[email protected]:5672//

Question

I'm trying to set up Django-Celery. I'm going through the tutorial

http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html

when I run $ python manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info

I get

[Tasks]   /Users/msmith/Documents/dj/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djcelery/loaders.py:133:     UserWarning: Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in     production environments! warnings.warn('Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never '  [2013-08-08 11:15:25,368: WARNING/MainProcess] /Users/msmith/Documents/dj/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djcelery/loaders.py:133: UserWarning: Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in production environments! warnings.warn('Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never '  [2013-08-08 11:15:25,369: WARNING/MainProcess] celery@sfo-mpmgr ready. [2013-08-08 11:15:25,382: ERROR/MainProcess] consumer: Cannot connect to     amqp://[email protected]:5672/celeryvhost: [Errno 61] Connection refused. Trying again in 2.00 seconds... 

has anyone encountered this issue before?

settings.py

# Django settings for summertime project. import djcelery djcelery.setup_loader()  BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/'  ...  INSTALLED_APPS = {     ...     'djcelery',     'celerytest' } 

wsgi.py

import djcelery djcelery.setup_loader() 

Answer 1

Update Jan 2022: This answer is outdated. As suggested in comments, please refer to this link

The problem is that you are trying to connect to a local instance of RabbitMQ. Look at this line in your settings.py

BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/' 

If you are working currently on development, you could avoid setting up Rabbit and all the mess around it, and just use a development version of a message queue with the Django database.

Do this by replacing your previous configuration with:

BROKER_URL = 'django://' 

...and add this app:

INSTALLED_APPS += ('kombu.transport.django', ) 

Finally, launch the worker with:

./manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info 

Source: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/django.html

Answer 2

I got this error because rabbitmq was not started. If you installed rabbitmq via brew you can start it using brew services start rabbitmq