How to configure askbot with redis

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This worked well for installing redis and getting it configured thank you.

However... it didn't solve the issue of my settings not being saved. None of my settings get saved from the settings page. No error is generated on the page, nor in the logs so I'm not sure where to go from here.

That sounds odd. You might have duplicate configuration statements for cache and effectively you are still using locmem caching or redis server is not running, not configured correctly.

I ran a cache test using the django shell as described in http://askbot.org/en/question/8273/how-do-i-check-if-memcache-is-working/. I have tested the redis client/server directly and they are working without error as well.

In my settings.py file I commented out all of the CACHE_* settings and only have:

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:6379',
        'OPTIONS': {
           'DB': 1,
            #'PASSWORD': 'yadayada',
            'PARSER_CLASS': 'redis.connection.HiredisParser'
        },
    },
}

(can't do code formatting in the comment I guess... sorry)

Use this setting instead: CACHE_BACKEND = 'redis_cache.cache://<host>:<port>' the livesettings app has a dependency that use that setting in some part.

I will look into fixing this config issue in the livesettings, did not know about this.