diff --git a/doc/source/admin/galaxy_options.rst b/doc/source/admin/galaxy_options.rst
index 04ad0c5a1d5..441d5d2d85a 100644
--- a/doc/source/admin/galaxy_options.rst
+++ b/doc/source/admin/galaxy_options.rst
@@ -5151,8 +5151,11 @@
 
 :Description:
     Offload long-running tasks to a Celery task queue. Activate this
-    only if you have setup a Celery worker for Galaxy. For details,
-    see https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/production.html
+    only if you have setup a Celery worker for Galaxy and you have
+    configured the `celery_conf` option below. Specifically, you need
+    to set the `result_backend` option in the `celery_conf` option to
+    a valid Celery result backend URL. For details, see
+    https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/production.html#use-celery-for-asynchronous-tasks
 :Default: ``false``
 :Type: bool
 
@@ -5174,7 +5177,7 @@
     disabled on a per-task basis at this time.)
     For details, see Celery documentation at
     https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/configuration.html.
-:Default: ``{'task_routes': {'galaxy.fetch_data': 'galaxy.external', 'galaxy.set_job_metadata': 'galaxy.external'}}``
+:Default: ``{'result_backend': 'redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0', 'task_routes': {'galaxy.fetch_data': 'galaxy.external', 'galaxy.set_job_metadata': 'galaxy.external'}}``
 :Type: any
 
 
diff --git a/lib/galaxy/config/sample/galaxy.yml.sample b/lib/galaxy/config/sample/galaxy.yml.sample
index 532f582920e..fffe8446af4 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/config/sample/galaxy.yml.sample
+++ b/lib/galaxy/config/sample/galaxy.yml.sample
@@ -2758,8 +2758,11 @@ galaxy:
   #amqp_internal_connection: sqlalchemy+sqlite:///./database/control.sqlite?isolation_level=IMMEDIATE
 
   # Offload long-running tasks to a Celery task queue. Activate this
-  # only if you have setup a Celery worker for Galaxy. For details, see
-  # https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/production.html
+  # only if you have setup a Celery worker for Galaxy and you have
+  # configured the `celery_conf` option below. Specifically, you need to
+  # set the `result_backend` option in the `celery_conf` option to a
+  # valid Celery result backend URL. For details, see
+  # https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/production.html#use-celery-for-asynchronous-tasks
   #enable_celery_tasks: false
 
   # Configuration options passed to Celery.
@@ -2775,6 +2778,7 @@ galaxy:
   # For details, see Celery documentation at
   # https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/configuration.html.
   #celery_conf:
+  #  result_backend: redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0
   #  task_routes:
   #    galaxy.fetch_data: galaxy.external
   #    galaxy.set_job_metadata: galaxy.external
diff --git a/lib/galaxy/config/schemas/config_schema.yml b/lib/galaxy/config/schemas/config_schema.yml
index 04e0e41c6f5..8178826bbbf 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/config/schemas/config_schema.yml
+++ b/lib/galaxy/config/schemas/config_schema.yml
@@ -3761,13 +3761,17 @@ mapping:
         required: false
         desc: |
           Offload long-running tasks to a Celery task queue.
-          Activate this only if you have setup a Celery worker for Galaxy.
-          For details, see https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/production.html
+          Activate this only if you have setup a Celery worker for Galaxy and you have
+          configured the `celery_conf` option below. Specifically, you need to set the
+          `result_backend` option in the `celery_conf` option to a valid Celery result
+          backend URL.
+          For details, see https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/production.html#use-celery-for-asynchronous-tasks
           
       celery_conf:
         type: any
         required: false
         default:
+          result_backend: redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0
           task_routes:
             'galaxy.fetch_data': 'galaxy.external'
             'galaxy.set_job_metadata': 'galaxy.external'