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How To Install and Configure Redis on Ubuntu 16.04

Published on May 11, 2016
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πŸ‘ How To Install and Configure Redis on Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction

Redis is an in-memory key-value store known for its flexibility, performance, and wide language support. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install and configure Redis on an Ubuntu 16.04 server.

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Former Senior Technical Writer at DigitalOcean, specializing in DevOps topics across multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, as well as Debian 10 and 11.

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Thanks for writing this up! I had to add Type=forking to the systemd [Service] and change the ownership of /var/log/redis (but that may have been my configuration). Otherwise it would shut the service down immediately after starting it.

Thanks a lot, this really helped.

Excellent article. Worked perfectly. Thanks!

FYI: If you are getting start failures and no messages to the effect at all and no log yet generated as in my case, It’s probably something in the startup chain - eg the redis.config in my case. This will allow you to test the startup directly (yet w/no systemctl hooks:

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf

It’s maybe best instruction for redis setup. Thanks.

I cannot connect it from my laptop, using β€œredis-cli -h IP.ADDRS.OF.DO.SERVER -p 6379” Do I have to enable something ?

/tmp/redis-stable$ sudo make install Hint: It’s a good idea to run β€˜make test’ ;)

INSTALL install
INSTALL install
INSTALL install
INSTALL install
INSTALL install

Of course, you could always just

$ sudo apt-get install redis-server

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