From 7cd5a02ee93e96bd503e0a0992ff66695eb9956f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arne Schauf <git@as-webservices.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:06:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] update some doc about the redis backend

---
 docs/backends.rst  | 14 ++++++++++++++
 docs/deploying.rst |  7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/backends.rst b/docs/backends.rst
index e79dda9..b80911a 100644
--- a/docs/backends.rst
+++ b/docs/backends.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ Database
 Redis
 -----
 
+To use the Redis backend you have to install the redis package::
+
+    pip install -U redis
+
+Also you need to set the following in the ``CHANNEL_BACKENDS`` setting::
+
+    CHANNEL_BACKENDS = {
+        "default": {
+            "BACKEND": "channels.backends.redis_py.RedisChannelBackend",
+            "HOST": "redis-hostname",
+        },
+    }
+
+
 Writing Custom Backends
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/deploying.rst b/docs/deploying.rst
index 5a47e36..49433b7 100644
--- a/docs/deploying.rst
+++ b/docs/deploying.rst
@@ -36,11 +36,16 @@ here's an example for a remote Redis server::
 
     CHANNEL_BACKENDS = {
         "default": {
-            "BACKEND": "channels.backends.redis.RedisChannelBackend",
+            "BACKEND": "channels.backends.redis_py.RedisChannelBackend",
             "HOST": "redis-channel",
         },
     }
 
+To use the Redis backend you have to install the redis package::
+
+    pip install -U redis
+
+
 Make sure the same setting file is used across all your workers, interfaces
 and WSGI apps; without it, they won't be able to talk to each other and things
 will just fail to work.