For Windows server: Start up Redis server “C:\Program Files\Redis\redis-server.exe” Start up Celery project tasks dir “C:\Users\ServerAdmin\Documents\celery_example” // foreground celery -A proj worker -l info --pool=solo // background celery multi start w1 -A proj -l info --pool=solo Now task queue is ready. For Linux : don’t forget virtual env if any. Start up Redis server redis-server Start up Celery project tasks cd /Users/cdrandin/Programming/Python/celery_example // foreground celery -A proj worker -l info // background celery multi start w1 -A proj -l info Resources: celery/celery#2146