I've built a Django web application and some Django-Piston services. Using a web interface a user submits some data which is POSTed to a web service and that web service in turn uses Django-celery to start a background task.
Everything works fine in the development environment using manage.py. Now I'm trying to move this to production on a proper apache server. The web application and web services work fine in production but I'm having serious issues starting celeryd as a daemon. Based on these instructions: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/tutorials/daemonizing.html#running-the-worker-as-a-daemon I've created a celeryconfig.py file and stuck it in the /usr/bin directory (this is where celeryd is location on my arch linux server).
CELERYD_CHDIR="/srv/http/ControllerFramework/"
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="settings"
CELERYD="/srv/http/ControllerFramework/manage.py celeryd"
However when I try to start celeryd from the command line I get the following error:
"Missing connection string! Do you have "
celery.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Missing connection string! Do you have CELERY_RESULT_DBURI set to a real value?
Not sure where to go from here. Below is my settings.py section as it pertains to this problem:
BROKER_HOST = "localhost"
BROKER_PORT = 5672
BROKER_USER = "controllerFramework"
BROKER_PASSWORD = "******"
BROKER_VHOST = "localhost"