Redis NOAUTH Authentication required. [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379] Laravel

Question

I am working on a Laravel project that uses dingo package to manage some APIs. I changed CACHE_DRIVER=array variable in my .env file to CACHE_DRIVER=redis because dingo no longer support array for CACHE_DRIVER. I therefore installed redis on my system and included the package in my Laravel project by adding "predis/predis": "~1.0" in my composer.json and updating with the command composer update. Up until now everything works just fine. However, to create database table and seed them using php artisan migrate --seed, I get the error:

[Predis\Connection\ConnectionException]
SELECT failed: NOAUTH Authentication required. [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379]

Note: when I was installing redis, I added a password. I also authenticated using the two commands redis-cli to switch to redis and then AUTH mypassword. Yet when I try to seed, it still throws the same error. Please what am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I would start with setting redis password in REDIS_PASSWORD environment variable (e.g. in .env file). See https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/redis#configuration for more details about redis configuration in Laravel.