Laravel-echo-server, Redis and Ubuntu 18.04.4 [ioredis] Error: connect ETIMEDOUT

I hope someone can help me in solving this problem:

I have my laravel project (7.x) broadcasting without problems on local environment (Laragon 4.0 with redis). I wanted to move it live to make some more accurate test on my VPS with Ubuntu 18.04.4, apache2, virtualmin cp.

I did install redis server (latest version) and is up and running (PING -> PONG, create key->value, read key->value... restart service and key->value still there... all tests working great). When I fire my event and broadcast something I see it in queue:work regularly, but everytime I launch LARAVEL ECHO SERVER and the client connects very fast and after few seconds I start to receive this error in console:

[ioredis] Unhandled error event: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT at Socket. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/laravel-echo-server/node_modules/ioredis/built/redis/index.js:285:37) at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:313:30) at emitNone (events.js:106:13) at Socket.emit (events.js:208:7) at Socket._onTimeout (net.js:420:8) at ontimeout (timers.js:482:11) at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:317:5) at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:277:5) I checked every single post here on stackoverflow, laracasts and everywhere this error is mentioned but I cannot find a solution. The interested part of my .env file is here:

APP_NAME=Testapp APP_ENV=local APP_KEY=[omitted] APP_DEBUG=true APP_URL=[omitted] LOG_CHANNEL=stack DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=17306 DB_DATABASE=[omitted] DB_USERNAME=[omitted] DB_PASSWORD=[omitted] BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis CACHE_DRIVER=none QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis SESSION_DRIVER=database SESSION_LIFETIME=1200 REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1 REDIS_PASSWORD=null REDIS_PORT=6379 Here is Broadcasting.php

'default' => env('BROADCAST_DRIVER', 'null'),

/* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Broadcast Connections |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Here you may define all of the broadcast connections that will be used | to broadcast events to other systems or over websockets. Samples of | each available type of connection are provided inside this array. | */

'connections' => [

'pusher' => [
    'driver' => 'pusher',
    'key' => env('PUSHER_APP_KEY'),
    'secret' => env('PUSHER_APP_SECRET'),
    'app_id' => env('PUSHER_APP_ID'),
    'options' => [
        'cluster' => env('PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER'),
        'useTLS' => true,
    ],
],

'redis' => [
    'driver' => 'redis',
    'connection' => 'default',
],

My Database.php

'redis' => [

'client' => env('REDIS_CLIENT', 'phpredis'),

'options' => [
    'cluster' => env('REDIS_CLUSTER', 'redis'),
    'prefix' => env('REDIS_PREFIX', Str::slug(env('APP_NAME', 'laravel'), '_').'_database_'),
],

'default' => [
    'url' => env('REDIS_URL'),
    'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
    'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', '6379'),
    'database' => env('REDIS_DB', '0'),
],

'cache' => [
    'url' => env('REDIS_URL'),
    'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
    'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', '6379'),
    'database' => env('REDIS_CACHE_DB', '1'),
    'timeout' => 10000,
],

My laravel-echo-server.json

{ "authHost": "127.0.0.1", "authEndpoint": "/broadcasting/auth", "clients": [], "database": "redis", "databaseConfig": { "redis": {}, "sqlite": { "databasePath": "/database/laravel-echo-server.sqlite" } }, "devMode": true, "host": null, "port": "6001", "protocol": "https", "socketio": {}, "secureOptions": 67108864, "sslCertPath": "/home/[myuser]/ssl.cert", "sslKeyPath": "/home/[myuser]/ssl.key", "sslCertChainPath": "", "sslPassphrase": "", "subscribers": { "http": true, "redis": true }, "apiOriginAllow": { "allowCors": false, "allowOrigin": "", "allowMethods": "", "allowHeaders": "" } }

The ports on firewall should be open and I find the services listening on their ports.

I really don't know what else to do, please if someone can help me because I'm getting old and I want to solve it before I retire :)

Thanks,

Simone