Why doesn't memcache work?

Question

from django.core.cache import cache
    def testcache():
        cache.set('test','I am putting this message in',3333)
        print cache.get('test')

It just prints "None"

This is in "ps aux":

dovr      2241  0.0  0.8  57824  2144 ?        Ssl  04:20   0:00 memcached -d -u root -m 3900 -p 11211
dovr      2247  0.0  3.7  83696  9800 pts/2    S+   04:20   0:00 python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

And this is in my settings.py:

CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://MYIPADRESS:11211/'

By the way, it worked before, but not anymore! I don't know why. So weird.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '09 at 16:42

Some questions:

Is your memcache server configured to listen on your public ip address or does it only listen on localhost?
Is MYIPADDRESS local or public?

In case MYIPADDRESS is a public one and your server only listens on 127.0.0.1 this doesn't work. You'd need to make your server listen on 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces.

Why doesn't memcache work?

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