title: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379] on localhost using laravel 5.2
body: <p>I am using Laravel 5.2 and developing an admin panel and trying to integrate Redis 1.0 in Laravel.</p>
  
  <p>When I am trying to set the variable name along with value it prompting an error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379]</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The configurational changes i made it is given below:  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>In config/session.php file i replaced file with redis</li>
  <li>('driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'redis'))</li>
  <li>Under <code>aliases</code> array in <code>config/app.php</code> file the Redis facade is already included <code>'Redis' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::class</code></li>
  <li>In <code>.env</code> file I replaced <code>file</code> with <code>redis</code> in <code>SESSION_DRIVER</code> variable</li>
  <li>In <code>database.php</code> file the config for redis server is given below:</li>
  </ul>
  
  <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code>'redis' =&gt; [
      'cluster' =&gt; true,
      'default' =&gt; [
          'host' =&gt; env('REDIS_HOST', 'localhost'),
          'password' =&gt; env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
          'port' =&gt; env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
          'database' =&gt; 0,
      ],
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Below is my Controller code:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?php
  
  namespace App\Http\Controllers\Administrator;
  
  use Redis;
  use App\Http\Requests;
  use Illuminate\Http\Request;
  use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
  
  class MyController extends Controller
  {
      public function __construct() {}
  
      public function myProfile(Request $request)
      {
          $redis = Redis::connection();
          $adminName = $request-&gt;route('admin_name');
          if ($redis) {
              echo 'connection done';
          } else {
              echo 'connection not done';
          }
          Redis::set('name', $adminName);
          echo $redis-&gt;get('name');
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help if anyone have an idea of it.</p>