Thank you for the reply.
Just to clarify, I am completely up and running and everything working, but I had to set redis host to “localhost” because connecting to redis via unix socket would not work.
I followed this guide: Install Discourse Forum on Ubuntu 18.04 Without Docker
because the guide is somewhat dated I did have to make a couple adjustments here and there, but I am very familiar with Linux so I was able to work through it just fine.
My install is on a Proxmox LXC container running Ubuntu 20.04
I don’t find many references online about using Redis via UnixSocket, I am wondering if that might be somewhat new for redis, I did find a link but it appears they are using docker and I am not so its not directly applicable: Discourse PR for redis.socketed.template.yml - Discourse System Administration - Unix Linux Community