By Ekion2
I’m looking to scale my application from a single server to multiple, so I’ve set up a brand new Redis managed database. After trying to point my Laravel app to use it I’m getting a read error on connection
error. Having scouted around the internet for the best part of a day, I’ve realised that it doesn’t seem to be a common issue. I’m running Laravel 6.2
, phpredis 5.1.1
and php 7.3.13
. I’ve allowed my droplet to access the Redis instance over private networking.
My config/database
looks like this:
'redis' => [
'client' => 'phpredis',
'cluster' => false,
'default' => [
'scheme' => 'tls',
'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
'database' => env('REDIS_DB', 0),
],
'cache' => [
'scheme' => 'tls',
'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
'database' => env('REDIS_CACHE_DB', 1),
],
'options' => [
'prefix' => env('REDIS_PREFIX', Str::slug(env('APP_ENV', 'ENVNOTDEFINED'), '_').'_database_'),
'parameters' => ['password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null)],
],
]
And my .env
file contains the required values:
REDIS_HOST=DATABASE_URL.db.ondigitalocean.com
REDIS_PASSWORD=PASSWORD
REDIS_PORT=25061
I found this question, but because I’m already running later versions than the suggested fix, the answer didn’t solve my problem.
Has anyone encountered this before?
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
Accepted Answer
Hi @Ekion2,
This is a good question!
I’ve set up a fresh Laravel project and a Redis Managed database to test this.
I think that you’ve done everything correctly, one thing that I had to do in order to get it working was to update the REDIS_HOST
and append tls://
:
REDIS_HOST=tls://DATABASE_URL.db.ondigitalocean.com
Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby
Thanks for the suggestion @bobbyiliev, it worked like a charm! Hopefully this can help someone else out too!
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.
The Wave has everything you need to know about building a business, from raising funding to marketing your product.
Stay up to date by signing up for DigitalOcean’s Infrastructure as a Newsletter.
New accounts only. By submitting your email you agree to our Privacy Policy
Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.
Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*
*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.