celeryd insists on checking amqp when its configured to use redis

I am trying to run celerdy + redis in my setup.

CELERYD_NODES="worker1"
CELERYD_NODES="worker1 worker2 worker3"
CELERY_BIN="/home/snijsure/.virtualenvs/mtest/bin/celery"
CELERYD_CHDIR="/home/snijsure/work/mytest/"
CELERYD_OPTS="--time-limit=300 --concurrency=8"
CELERYD_LOG_FILE="/var/log/celery/%N.log"
CELERYD_PID_FILE="/var/run/celery/%N.pid"
CELERYD_USER="celery"
CELERYD_GROUP="celery"
CELERY_CREATE_DIRS=1
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="analytics.settings.local"

I have following in my base.py

BROKER_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
BROKER_HOST = "localhost"
BROKER_BACKEND="redis"
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_HOST = "localhost"
BROKER_USER = ""
BROKER_PASSWORD =""
BROKER_VHOST = "0"
REDIS_DB = 0
REDIS_CONNECT_RETRY = True
CELERY_SEND_EVENTS=True
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='redis'
CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES =  10
CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULER="djcelery.schedulers.DatabaseScheduler"
CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = False
import djcelery
djcelery.setup_loader()

However when I start the celeryd using /etc/init.d/celerdy start

I see following messages in my log files

[2014-08-14 23:16:41,430: ERROR/MainProcess] consumer: Cannot connect to amqp://guest:**@127.0.0.1:5672//: [Errno 111] Connection refused.
Trying again in 32.00 seconds...

It seems like its trying to connect to amqp. Any ideas on why that is I have followed procedure outlined here

http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/redis.html I am running version 3.1.13 (Cipater)

What am I doing wrong?

-Subodh

Solution

How do you start you celery worker? I encounter this error once because I didn't start it right. You should add -A option when execute "celery worker" so that celery will connect to the broker you configured in your Celery Obj. Otherwise celery will try to connect the default broker.