diff --git a/funding/factory.py b/funding/factory.py
index fffce45..6387699 100644
--- a/funding/factory.py
+++ b/funding/factory.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from flask import Flask
 from flask_caching import Cache
 from flask_session import Session
 from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
+import redis
 
 app = None
 cache = None
@@ -17,9 +18,13 @@ def _setup_cache(app: Flask):
     cache_config = {
         "CACHE_TYPE": "redis",
         "CACHE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT": 60,
-        "CACHE_KEY_PREFIX": "wow_cache_"
+        "CACHE_KEY_PREFIX": "wow_cache_",
+        "CACHE_REDIS_PORT": settings.REDIS_PORT
     }
 
+    if settings.REDIS_PASSWD:
+        cache_config["CACHE_REDIS_PASSWORD"] = settings.REDIS_PASSWD
+
     app.config.from_mapping(cache_config)
     cache = Cache(app)
 
@@ -27,6 +32,7 @@ def _setup_cache(app: Flask):
 def _setup_session(app: Flask):
     app.config['SESSION_TYPE'] = 'redis'
     app.config['SESSION_COOKIE_NAME'] = 'bar'
+    app.config['SESSION_REDIS'] = redis.from_url(settings.REDIS_URI)
     Session(app)  # defaults to timedelta(days=31)
 
 
diff --git a/settings.py_example b/settings.py_example
index 7e5efaf..a984164 100644
--- a/settings.py_example
+++ b/settings.py_example
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ SESSION_PREFIX = os.environ.get('{coincode}_SESSION_PREFIX', 'session:').format(
 REDIS_HOST = os.environ.get('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1')
 REDIS_PORT = int(os.environ.get('REDIS_PORT', 6379))
 REDIS_PASSWD = os.environ.get('REDIS_PASSWD', None)
+REDIS_URI = "redis://"
+if REDIS_PASSWD:
+    REDIS_URI += f":{REDIS_PASSWD}"
+REDIS_URI += f"@{REDIS_HOST}:{REDIS_PORT}"
 
 BIND_HOST = os.environ.get("BIND_HOST", "0.0.0.0")
 if not BIND_HOST: