How to set up memcached the webfaction way in 1.3?

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In Django 1.3, they changed the way you set up cache in settings.py.
Before (and in Webfaction's docs), I used the socket variant:

CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://unix:/home/mistalaba/memcached.sock'

Now the Django doc recommends doing it like this:

CACHES = {  
    'default': {  
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',  
        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',  
    }  
}

Any good suggestions on converting the old way to not be depreciated in the future?

Thank you!

Edit: After a few brave attempts from @cmdkeen and myself, it seems like the only option is to set up a new app in the panel and use the directions in http://community.webfaction.com/questions/784/django-memcached-stats instead of trying to get webfaction's set up to work.

Answer 1

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Try this:

CACHES = {  
    'default': {  
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',  
        'LOCATION': 'unix:/home/mistalaba/memcached.sock',  
    }  
}

Hope that helps!

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answered 06 Apr '11, 08:54

seanf
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I am sorry, but that didn't work. The result was InvalidCacheBackendError: Backend URI must start with scheme://

(06 Apr '11, 11:16) marty3d

Answer 2

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It seems to work for me with the following location:

unix://unix:/path/to/memcached.sock

So all you were missing was the scheme:// definition, was a pure guess on my part that unix was the scheme rather than memcached :)

Edit to add - on further investigation it isn't actually working for me, just not throwing an exception... I was however trying with redis rather than memcached (some stackoverflow answer said they were API compatible)

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answered 10 Apr '11, 17:14

cmdkeen
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edited 10 Apr '11, 17:42

Thanks for trying! I didn't have enough points to "like" your post, so I'll mention it here instead.

(12 Apr '11, 01:09) marty3d

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