 <p>You are trying to connect to a local instance of RabbitMQ.</p> <blockquote> <p>BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/'</p> </blockquote> <p>in your settings.py). If you are working currently on development, you could avoid setting up Rabbit and all the mess around it, and just use a development-version of a Message Queue with the Django Database. </p> <p>Do this by replacing your previous configuration with</p> <blockquote> <p>BROKER_URL = 'django://' and add this app:</p> <p>INSTALLED_APPS += ('kombu.transport.django', )</p> </blockquote> <p>Finally, launch the worker with</p> <blockquote> <p>./manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info</p> </blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/django.html">http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/django.html</a></p>