Error 111 connecting to localhost:6379. Connection refused. Django Heroku

Question

I am able to run redis locally and everything works.

However when I deploy to heroku I get this error:

Error 111 connecting to localhost:6379. Connection refused.  

I have set up a Procfile with...

web: gunicorn odb.wsgi --log-file - worker: python worker.py 

I have a worker.py file...

import os import urlparse from redis import Redis from rq import Worker, Queue, Connection  listen = ['high', 'default', 'low']  redis_url = os.getenv('REDISTOGO_URL') if not redis_url:     raise RuntimeError('Set up Redis To Go first.')  urlparse.uses_netloc.append('redis') url = urlparse.urlparse(redis_url) conn = Redis(host=url.hostname, port=url.port, db=0, password=url.password)  if __name__ == '__main__': with Connection(conn):     worker = Worker(map(Queue, listen))     worker.work() 

A REDISTOGO_URL variable appears in the heroku config.

Redis to go is an installed add-on for my app.

Does REDISTOGO_URL have to be defined in settings.py? Why is heroku trying to connect to the local host when it is not even defined in worker.py?

Answer 1

May be not directly related to your question but I was facing same error and it turn out that on my system redis-server package was not installed.

Problem was resolved with,

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install redis-server

Cent OS: sudo yum install redis