Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused

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Hi Redis Core Team,

In order to feel the power of redis, I have already set up a security group 
with the port 6379 in amazon ec2.

Under the redis-stable/src directory in my ec2 instance via either putty.exe or 
nxclient, I have tried to start the redis console by using redis-cli , 
redis-cli -p 3000 -h my ip address, redis-cli -p 6379 -h my ip address, 
redis-cli -p 80 -h 127.0.0.1 , redis-cli -p 3000 -h 127.0.0.1 and  redis-cli -p 
6379 -h 127.0.0.1 , redis-cli -p 3000 and  redis-cli -p 6379...

But all in vain. All I got is the message below:
Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused
not connected> 

And when I use redis-cli -p 80 -h my ip address and redis-cli -p 80,
I can log in, but when I type "ping" to see if it works or not. I got the 
message below:
Error: Protocol error, got "<" as reply type byte

Kindly wonder what I have done wrong. Any help appreciated here please. Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by maprefer...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2012 at 4:24

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1. Bugs are no longer maintained here, they are maintained: 
https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues
2. You are not experiencing a bug, you are just trying to use Redis incorrectly 
(you probably haven't started Redis up, which is why the client is not able to 
connect).
3. You should be posting on 
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/redis-db to get help, not on 
a bug tracker.

Original comment by josiah.c...@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2012 at 7:52