django-redis-sessions-fork 0.5.3

installation

run pip install django-redis-sessions-fork

or alternatively download the tarball and run python setup.py install

set redis_sessions.session as your session engine, like so

SESSION_ENGINE = 'redis_sessions.session'

optional settings

# all these options are defaults, you can skip anyone
SESSION_REDIS_HOST = 'localhost'
SESSION_REDIS_PORT = 6379
SESSION_REDIS_DB = 0
SESSION_REDIS_PASSWORD = None
SESSION_REDIS_PREFIX = None

# 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'

# you can also use redis from url
SESSION_REDIS_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'

if you one of happy heroku.com users

you can skip redis configuration at all

django-redis-sessions-fork already have prefiguration for redis clouds

tests

pip install tox
tox