mbodock / django-redis-sessions

Session backend for Django that stores sessions in a Redis database

django-redis-sessions

Redis database backend for your sessions

Installation

• Run pip install django-redis-sessions or alternatively download the tarball and run python setup.py install,

For Django < 1.4 run pip install django-redis-sessions==0.3

• Set redis_sessions.session as your session engine, like so:

SESSION_ENGINE = 'redis_sessions.session'

• Optional settings:

SESSION_REDIS_HOST = 'localhost'
SESSION_REDIS_PORT = 6379
SESSION_REDIS_DB = 0
SESSION_REDIS_PASSWORD = 'password'
SESSION_REDIS_PREFIX = 'session'
SESSION_REDIS_SOCKET_TIMEOUT = 1

# If you prefer domain socket connection, 
# you can just add this line instead of SESSION_REDIS_HOST and SESSION_REDIS_PORT.

SESSION_REDIS_UNIX_DOMAIN_SOCKET_PATH = '/var/run/redis/redis.sock'

# Redis Sentinel 
SESSION_REDIS_SENTINEL_LIST = [(host, port), (host, port), (host, port)]
SESSION_REDIS_SENTINEL_MASTER_ALIAS = 'sentinel-master'

Tests

$ pip install django nose redis
# Make sure you have redis running on localhost:6379
$ nosetests

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