I'm trying to set up Django-Celery. I'm going through the tutorial

http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html

when I run $ python manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info

I get

[Tasks]


/Users/msmith/Documents/dj/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djcelery/loaders.py:133:     UserWarning: Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in     production environments!
warnings.warn('Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never '

[2013-08-08 11:15:25,368: WARNING/MainProcess] /Users/msmith/Documents/dj/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/djcelery/loaders.py:133: UserWarning: Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in production environments!
warnings.warn('Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never '

[2013-08-08 11:15:25,369: WARNING/MainProcess] celery@sfo-mpmgr ready.
[2013-08-08 11:15:25,382: ERROR/MainProcess] consumer: Cannot connect to     amqp://guest@127.0.0.1:5672/celeryvhost: [Errno 61] Connection refused.
Trying again in 2.00 seconds...

has anyone encountered this issue before?

settings.py

# Django settings for summertime project.
import djcelery
djcelery.setup_loader()

BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/'

...

INSTALLED_APPS = {
    ...
    'djcelery',
    'celerytest'
}

wsgi.py

import djcelery
djcelery.setup_loader()

Update Jan 2022: This answer is outdated. As suggested in comments, please refer to this link

The problem is that you are trying to connect to a local instance of RabbitMQ. Look at this line in your settings.py

BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/'

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.

Do this by replacing your previous configuration with:

BROKER_URL = 'django://'

...and add this app:

INSTALLED_APPS += ('kombu.transport.django', )

Finally, launch the worker with:

./manage.py celery worker --loglevel=info

Source: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/django.html