@hukadan
point is i did NOT want to link the two accounts
just because he saw i am the one that posted on github doesn't mean link me

Anyways i posted this thread to get help
Will great appreciate any help on the redis issue

@julian
Seems you don't understand what privacy is.
I did not in anyway mention i opened same exact issue on github or suggest i want to link myself with both sites, i may simply want to separate my github account from this forum account.
Normally i try to edit my questions whenever am posting to a few sources i need help mainly because of abuse of privacy like this.

@psychobunny

not sure it was really necessary to link my github (privacy???)

@stuwil

The config.json file is below

{
    "url": "NODEBB_URL",
    "secret": "NODEBB_SECRET",
    "database": "redis",
    "redis": {
        "host": "NODEBB_REDIS_HOST",
        "port": "NODEBB_REDIS_PORT",
        "password": "",
        "database": "3"
    },
    "app_url": "http://example.com",
    "smtp_from_name": "example"
}

and command to run the docker container before running the ./nodebb upgrade command

docker run -it \
        -h nodebb \                                
        -e NODEBB_CONFIG_ENV='config.json' \       
        -e NODEBB_REDIS_HOST='redis.elasticache.amazonaws.com' \
        -e NODEBB_REDIS_PORT='6379' \
        -e NODEBB_SECRET='xxxxxx' \       
        -e NODEBB_URL='https://forums.example.com' \
                                -v /var/log/nodebb:/app/logs \
        -v /var/opt/nodebb/uploads:/app/public/uploads \
                                -p 8080:4567 \
                        --name nodebb \
                example/nodebb:production bash

hope all this information and help figure out what the issue is. I thought it was a popular issue that will be figured out quickly; surprised i had to add all these info.

Thanks.

while trying to upgrade nodebb from version 1.0.3 to 1.3.0 and got this error message
by the way this is using docker

ran the below command inside the docker container

./nodebb upgrade

output

1. Bringing base dependencies up to date .. OK
2. Checking installed plugins for updates.. OK
3. Updating NodeBB data store schema..
/app/node_modules/redis/lib/createClient.js:62
                options.path = port_arg;
                                      ^

TypeError: cannot assign to read only property 'path' of NODEBB_REDIS_HOST
        at createClient (/app/node_modules/redis/lib/createClient.js:62:26)
        at Object.exports.createClient (/app/node_modules/redis/index.js:1081:41)
        at Object.module.connect (/app/src/database/redis.js:85:16)
        at Object.module.init (/app/src/database/redis.js:47:24)
        at upgrade (/app/app.js:285:28)
        at Object.<anonymous> (/app/app.js:75:2)
        at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
        at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
        at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
        at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

Error: undefined

NODEBB_REDIS is the variable used for the remote redis host/endpoint

Can anyone please help with this error?