diff --git a/tests/redis-configurations/unixdomainsocket.conf b/tests/redis-configurations/unixdomainsocket.conf
index 6ec7abce..bc70ab30 100644
--- a/tests/redis-configurations/unixdomainsocket.conf
+++ b/tests/redis-configurations/unixdomainsocket.conf
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ tcp-backlog 511
 # incoming connections. There is no default, so Redis will not listen
 # on a unix socket when not specified.
 #
-unixsocket /var/tmp/limits.redis.sock
+unixsocket /tmp/limits.redis.sock
 # unixsocketperm 700
 
 # Close the connection after a client is idle for N seconds (0 to disable)
diff --git a/tests/test_storage.py b/tests/test_storage.py
index e4079544..893c5594 100644
--- a/tests/test_storage.py
+++ b/tests/test_storage.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 class BaseStorageTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         pymemcache.client.Client(('localhost', 22122)).flush_all()
-        redis.from_url('unix:///var/tmp/limits.redis.sock').flushall()
+        redis.from_url('unix:///tmp/limits.redis.sock').flushall()
         redis.from_url("redis://localhost:7379").flushall()
         redis.from_url("redis://:sekret@localhost:7389").flushall()
         redis.sentinel.Sentinel([
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ def test_storage_string(self):
         )
         self.assertTrue(
             isinstance(
-                storage_from_string("redis+unix:///var/tmp/limits.redis.sock"), RedisStorage
+                storage_from_string("redis+unix:///tmp/limits.redis.sock"), RedisStorage
             )
         )
 
         self.assertTrue(
             isinstance(
-                storage_from_string("redis+unix://:password/var/tmp/limits.redis.sock"), RedisStorage
+                storage_from_string("redis+unix://:password/tmp/limits.redis.sock"), RedisStorage
             )
         )
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def test_storage_check(self):
         self.assertTrue(storage_from_string("memory://").check())
         self.assertTrue(storage_from_string("redis://localhost:7379").check())
         self.assertTrue(storage_from_string("redis://:sekret@localhost:7389").check())
-        self.assertTrue(storage_from_string("redis+unix:///var/tmp/limits.redis.sock").check())
+        self.assertTrue(storage_from_string("redis+unix:///tmp/limits.redis.sock").check())
         self.assertTrue(
             storage_from_string("memcached://localhost:22122").check()
         )
@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ def test_init_options(self):
 
 class RedisUnixSocketStorageTests(SharedRedisTests, unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
-        self.storage_url = "redis+unix:///var/tmp/limits.redis.sock"
+        self.storage_url = "redis+unix:///tmp/limits.redis.sock"
         self.storage = RedisStorage(self.storage_url)
-        redis.from_url('unix:///var/tmp/limits.redis.sock').flushall()
+        redis.from_url('unix:///tmp/limits.redis.sock').flushall()
 
     def test_init_options(self):
         with mock.patch("limits.storage.get_dependency") as get_dependency: