Swap the Redis Cache client

allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/base.py

@@ -172,11 +172,8 @@ MESSAGE_TAGS = {
 
 CACHES = {
     "default": {
-        "BACKEND": "redis_cache.RedisCache",
-        "LOCATION": "localhost:6379",
-        "OPTIONS": {
-            "DB": 1,
-        }
+        "BACKEND": "django_redis.cache.RedisCache",
+        "LOCATION": "redis://127.0.0.1:6379/1" # change the 1 here to change the database used
     }
 }
 

allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/local.py

@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
 DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = ''
 
+# Cache compression can help on bigger auths where ram starts to become an issue.
+# Uncomment the following 3 lines to enable.
+
+#CACHES["default"]["OPTIONS"] = {
+#    "COMPRESSOR": "django_redis.compressors.lzma.LzmaCompressor",
+#}
+
 #######################################
 # Add any custom settings below here. #
 #######################################