Cant connect

[anton000]

Cant seem to connect to redis server.

Env

Redis Server
redis_version:2.8.4
redis_git_sha1:00000000
redis_git_dirty:0
redis_build_id:4bc5e29af907c9e6
redis_mode:standalone
os:Linux 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.i686 i686

PHP
PHP 5.4.24 (cli) (built: Jan 9 2014 07:31:54)
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies

CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jan 3 18:53:30 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Code

<?php
$redis = new Redis();
$redis->connect('127.0.0.1', 6379);
var_dump($redis->ping());
?>

Error

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'RedisException' with message 'Redis server went away' in /var/www/html/api/test.php:4 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/api/test.php(4): Redis->ping() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/api/test.php on line 4

[anton000]

lol did a
/usr/sbin/getsebool -a | grep httpd
turns out SELinux wasnt allowing apache to make socket connections. upgrade from CentOS 6.4 to 6.5 somehow turned 'httpd_can_network_connect' off.
just did a
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1