title: Django Celery socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
body: <p>When running the command <code>celery status</code> on my production server I get this error:</p>
  
  <p>But, Celery works and the worker do run, what is this error and why can I not run this command?</p>
  
  <pre><code>ubuntu@ip-10-32-9-39:/srv/project/logs/celery$ celery status
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/bin/celery", line 9, in &lt;module&gt;
      load_entry_point('celery==3.0.11', 'console_scripts', 'celery')()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/__main__.py", line 14, in main
      main()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 946, in main
      cmd.execute_from_commandline(argv)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 890, in execute_from_commandline
      super(CeleryCommand, self).execute_from_commandline(argv)))
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/base.py", line 179, in execute_from_commandline
      return self.handle_argv(prog_name, argv[1:])
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 882, in handle_argv
      return self.execute(command, argv)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 857, in execute
      return cls(app=self.app).run_from_argv(self.prog_name, argv)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 142, in run_from_argv
      return self(*args, **options)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 112, in __call__
      ret = self.run(*args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 652, in run
      .run('ping', **dict(kwargs, quiet=True, show_body=False))
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 505, in run
      return self.do_call_method(args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 527, in do_call_method
      replies = handler(method, *args[1:], **kwargs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/bin/celery.py", line 570, in call
      return getattr(i, method)(*args)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/app/control.py", line 79, in ping
      return self._request('ping')
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/app/control.py", line 54, in _request
      timeout=self.timeout, reply=True))
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/celery/app/control.py", line 260, in broadcast
      channel=channel)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kombu/pidbox.py", line 235, in _broadcast
      chan = channel or self.connection.default_channel
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kombu/connection.py", line 748, in default_channel
      self.connection
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kombu/connection.py", line 733, in connection
      self._connection = self._establish_connection()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kombu/connection.py", line 692, in _establish_connection
      conn = self.transport.establish_connection()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kombu/transport/pyamqp.py", line 109, in establish_connection
      heartbeat=conninfo.heartbeat)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/amqp/connection.py", line 136, in __init__
      self.transport = create_transport(host, connect_timeout, ssl)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/amqp/transport.py", line 250, in create_transport
      return TCPTransport(host, connect_timeout)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/amqp/transport.py", line 95, in __init__
      raise socket.error, msg
  socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Settings...</p>
  
  <pre><code>CELERYD_NODES="w1 w2 w3"
  
  # Where to chdir at start.
  CELERYD_CHDIR="/srv/project/"
  
  # How to call "manage.py celeryd_multi"
  CELERYD_MULTI="$CELERYD_CHDIR/manage.py celeryd_multi"
  
  # How to call "manage.py celeryctl"
  CELERYCTL="$CELERYD_CHDIR/manage.py celeryctl"
  
  # Extra arguments to celeryd
  CELERYD_OPTS="--time-limit=300 --concurrency=8"
  
  # %n will be replaced with the nodename.
  CELERYD_LOG_FILE="/srv/project/logs/celery/%n.log"
  CELERYD_PID_FILE="/srv/project/celery/%n.pid"
  
  # Workers should run as an unprivileged user.
  CELERYD_USER="ubuntu"
  CELERYD_GROUP="ubuntu"
  
  # Name of the projects settings module.
  export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="project.settings"
  </code></pre>