diff --git a/bookwyrm/settings.py b/bookwyrm/settings.py
index c1f900794..9450ba81f 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/settings.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/settings.py
@@ -13,17 +13,6 @@ VERSION = "0.0.1"
 PAGE_LENGTH = env("PAGE_LENGTH", 15)
 DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = env("DEFAULT_LANGUAGE", "English")
 
-# celery
-CELERY_BROKER = "redis://:{}@redis_broker:{}/0".format(
-    requests.utils.quote(env("REDIS_BROKER_PASSWORD", "")), env("REDIS_BROKER_PORT")
-)
-CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = "redis://:{}@redis_broker:{}/0".format(
-    requests.utils.quote(env("REDIS_BROKER_PASSWORD", "")), env("REDIS_BROKER_PORT")
-)
-CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ["application/json"]
-CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER = "json"
-CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER = "json"
-
 # email
 EMAIL_BACKEND = env("EMAIL_BACKEND", "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend")
 EMAIL_HOST = env("EMAIL_HOST")
diff --git a/bookwyrm/tasks.py b/bookwyrm/tasks.py
index 6d1992a77..b860e0184 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/tasks.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/tasks.py
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 import os
 from celery import Celery
 
-from bookwyrm import settings
+from celerywyrm import settings
 
 # set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "celerywyrm.settings")
 app = Celery(
-    "tasks", broker=settings.CELERY_BROKER, backend=settings.CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND
+    "tasks", broker=settings.CELERY_BROKER_URL, backend=settings.CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND
 )
diff --git a/celerywyrm/settings.py b/celerywyrm/settings.py
index 107a39572..a67ab4113 100644
--- a/celerywyrm/settings.py
+++ b/celerywyrm/settings.py
@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
 """ bookwyrm settings and configuration """
+# pylint: disable=wildcard-import
+# pylint: disable=unused-wildcard-import
 from bookwyrm.settings import *
 
-CELERY_BROKER_URL = CELERY_BROKER
+CELERY_BROKER_URL = "redis://:{}@redis_broker:{}/0".format(
+    requests.utils.quote(env("REDIS_BROKER_PASSWORD", "")), env("REDIS_BROKER_PORT")
+)
+CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = "redis://:{}@redis_broker:{}/0".format(
+    requests.utils.quote(env("REDIS_BROKER_PASSWORD", "")), env("REDIS_BROKER_PORT")
+)
+
 CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ["json"]
 CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER = "json"
+CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER = "json"
 FLOWER_PORT = env("FLOWER_PORT")
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS + [
diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a417579f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+bind 127.0.0.1 ::1
+protected-mode yes
+port 6379
+
+rename-command FLUSHDB ""
+rename-command FLUSHALL ""
+rename-command DEBUG ""
+rename-command CONFIG ""
+rename-command SHUTDOWN ""