Redis Installation
Installation on Windows
Download Link: https://github.com/tporadowski/redis/releases.
Redis supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Choose the appropriate version based on your system platform. Here, we download the Redis-x64-xxx.zip package to the C drive, unzip it, and rename the folder to redis.
Open the folder, which contains the following:
Open a cmd window and use the cd
command to switch to the C:\redis directory and run:
redis-server.exe redis.windows.conf
For convenience, you can add the redis path to the system environment variables, so you don't need to enter the path each time. The redis.windows.conf
can be omitted; if omitted, the default configuration will be used. After entering the command, the following interface will be displayed:
Now, open another cmd window without closing the original one, otherwise, you won't be able to access the server.
Switch to the redis directory and run:
redis-cli.exe -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379
Set a key-value pair:
set myKey abc
Retrieve the key-value pair:
get myKey
Source Code Installation on Linux
Download Link: http://redis.io/download, download the latest stable version.
This tutorial uses the latest documentation version, 2.8.17. Download and install:
# wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.0.8.tar.gz
# tar xzf redis-6.0.8.tar.gz
# cd redis-6.0.8
# make
After running the make
command, the src
directory of redis-6.0.8 will contain the compiled redis server program redis-server
, and a client program redis-cli
for testing:
Start the redis service:
# cd src
# ./redis-server
Note that this method starts redis with the default configuration. You can also specify a configuration file using the following command:
# cd src
# ./redis-server ../redis.conf
redis.conf is a default configuration file. We can use our own configuration file as needed.
After starting the redis service process, you can interact with the redis service using the test client program redis-cli
.
For example:
# cd src
# ./redis-cli
redis> set foo bar
OK
redis> get foo
"bar"
Ubuntu apt Command Installation
To install Redis on Ubuntu, use the following commands:
# sudo apt update
# sudo apt install redis-server
Start Redis
# redis-server
Check if Redis is running
# redis-cli
The above command will open the following terminal:
redis 127.0.0.1:6379>
127.0.0.1 is the local IP, and 6379 is the redis service port. Now, enter the PING command.
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ping
PONG
This indicates that we have successfully installed redis.