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

I was facing same the error

• Maybe radis server was not installed in your environment

  sudo apt-get install redis-server

• I needed to set up things like this in settings.py

  redis_host = os.environ.get('REDIS_HOST', 'localhost')    
  # Channel layer definitions
  # http://channels.readthedocs.org/en/latest/deploying.html#setting-up-a-channel-backend
  CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
      "default": {
          # This example app uses the Redis channel layer implementation asgi_redis
          "BACKEND": "asgi_redis.RedisChannelLayer",
          "CONFIG": {
              "hosts": [(redis_host, 6379)],
          },
          "ROUTING": "multichat.routing.channel_routing",
      },
  }
  

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