Name or service not known [tcp://redis:6379]

php laravel-5 predis phpredis redis-cache
oajmi picture oajmi · Jan 21, 2018 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

i am having a problem setting up redis cache with laravel. i have a redis server runnig on my local machine:

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my .env:

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i have the localhost on port 6379 ready and listened:

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someone plz tell me what's happenig here?enter image description here

Answer

Eytan Avisror picture Eytan Avisror · Jan 21, 2018

Change REDIS_HOST=redis to REDIS_HOST=localhost, it is looking for a host named redis and not finding it, since redis is installed on the same machine you should use localhost or 127.0.0.1.

Once you've done this, make sure you reload the .env config - php artisan config:clear

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