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. Conn         


        

Answer 1

The solution is sudo apt-get install redis-server. Don't forget to start your service by sudo service redis-server start and you can use the command sudo service redis-server {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status} for reference