Django-redis configuration to use socket rather than TCP - django

Question

I'm attempting to use django-redis using Unix sockets rather than a TCP connection:
This is the settings.py configuration:
CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.cache.RedisCache',
'LOCATION': 'unix:/tmp/redis.sock:1',
'OPTIONS': {
'PASSWORD': '',
'PICKLE_VERSION': -1, # default
'PARSER_CLASS': 'redis.connection.HiredisParser',
'CLIENT_CLASS': 'redis_cache.client.DefaultClient',
},
},
}
and this is an extract of the redis config file at /etc/redis/6379.conf:
# Specify the path for the unix socket that will be used to listen for
# incoming connections. There is no default, so Redis will not listen
# on a unix socket when not specified.
#
unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock
unixsocketperm 755
Still I receive a ConnectionInterrumped exception, which stands for an error during connection. Any ideas about what this configuration's issue is?
P.S. My Django version is 1.5.1, django-redis is 3.3 and hiredis is 0.0.1.

Answer 1

EDIT: Apparently I read the cache provider wrong, the below answer is the solution for django-redis-cache, not django-redis. I'll let the answer remain though, since changing cache provider and using this config seems to have solved the problem.
You should not need the unix: prefix, and the backend setting looks strange;
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
'LOCATION': '/tmp/redis.sock',
'OPTIONS': { ...