This is wikiaudia The main app is in wa (short for wikiaudia) Installtion - Celery and redis backend $ wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz $ tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz $ cd redis-stable $ make $ make install Install the new requirements: $ pip install -r requirements.txt Add the following to setup.py: Create the database datatables: # If you're using South: $ python manage.py migrate djcelery # otherwise: $ python manage.py syncdb Now to start your redis server and a celery worker. # Start the redis server $ redis-server # In a new terminal window/tab, start a celery worker $ celery -A tasks worker --loglevel=info --> USE THIS : python manage.py celeryd -l info at the project level # In ANOTHER terminal window/tab, enable the Django Celery monitor # so that you can manage your tasks from your admin page $ python manage.py celerycam