diff --git a/site-cookbooks/sockethub/recipes/default.rb b/site-cookbooks/sockethub/recipes/default.rb
index 201a803..30e8dcb 100644
--- a/site-cookbooks/sockethub/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/site-cookbooks/sockethub/recipes/default.rb
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ application path_to_deploy do
       app_dir: path_to_deploy,
       entry: "/usr/bin/node /usr/bin/npm start",
       environment: { 'DEBUG' => '*',
-                     'PORT' => node['sockethub']['port'] }
+                     'PORT' => node['sockethub']['port'],
+                     # Use the second database (index starts at 0)
+                     'REDIS_URL' => "redis://localhost:6379/1" }
     )
     notifies :run, "execute[systemctl daemon-reload]", :delayed
     notifies :restart, "service[sockethub_nodejs]", :delayed