Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused with homebrew

Question

Using homebrew to install Redis but when I try to ping Redis it shows this error:

Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused
         


        

Answer 1

Just like Aaron, in my case brew services list claimed redis was running, but it wasn't. I found the following information in my log file at /usr/local/var/log/redis.log:

4469:C 28 Feb 09:03:56.197 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
4469:C 28 Feb 09:03:56.197 # Redis version=4.0.9, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=4469, just started
4469:C 28 Feb 09:03:56.197 # Configuration loaded
4469:M 28 Feb 09:03:56.198 * Increased maximum number of open files to 10032 (it was originally set to 256).
4469:M 28 Feb 09:03:56.199 # Creating Server TCP listening socket 192.168.161.1:6379: bind: Can't assign requested address

That turns out to be caused by the following configuration:

bind 127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.161.1

which was necessary to give my VMWare Fusion virtual machine access to the redis server on macOS, the host. However, if the virtual machine wasn't started, this binding failure caused redis not to start up at all. So starting the virtual machine solved the problem.