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

If you are using django_rq, a configuration like this will work for you:

RQ_QUEUES = {
    'default': {
         'HOST': 'localhost',
         'PORT': '6379',
         'URL': os.getenv('REDISTOGO_URL', 'redis://localhost:6379'),  # If you're
         'DB': 0,
         'DEFAULT_TIMEOUT': 480,
     }
}

It will make that work on your local environment and also on Heroku!