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 anyone comes here trying to get django_rq to work after encountering either 99 or 111 errors try the following:

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

this requires you to name the redis container like this in your docker-compose.yml

services:
  app:
    build:
      context: .
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
      - ./app:/app
    command: >
      sh -c   "python manage.py makemigrations && 
              python manage.py migrate && 
              python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"
    depends_on:
      - redis
  redis:
    image: redis:6-alpine
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"