Setup Redis Database - charleshross/soarin GitHub Wiki

This guides assumes you have already installed a fresh copy of Debian Linux Wheezy 64bit (https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst) on your server or virtual machine.

Words like this are commands to run on your server or virtual machine.
The 'pico' text editor used in this documentation comes with Debian and is super simple to use. To open a file just type pico [location of your file]. Use arrow keys to navigate, and in order press "[CTRL]+[X], [Y], [ENTER]" to save file changes.

To begin installing, SSH into your Linux Debian server as root.

Redis

Redis is a super fast NoSQL database that helps when typical relational databases (Percona Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) may not be as good (heavy amounts of writes/reads, chat systems, job queues, reddit/twitter sites, cacheable data).

Compiling and Installing Redis from Source Code

Make install directory and move into it

mkdir /opt/redis

cd /opt/redis

Download latest Redis source code

wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.13.tar.gz

Decompress file

tar -xvf redis-2.8.13.tar.gz

Move into the new Redis source folder

cd redis-2.8.13

Make to /opt/redis

make PREFIX=/opt/redis install

Copy Redis config file over

cp /opt/redis/redis-2.8.13/redis.conf /opt/redis/redis.conf

Edit /opt/redis/redis.conf file

pico /opt/redis/redis.conf

change the line:

daemonize no

to this:

daemonize yes

Save file and close

Download this ready to go Redis startup script to your init.d folder

wget --no-check-certificate https://googledrive.com/host/0BxzEKwWYLHKNU3ZxN2lFeVJ4NzA -O /etc/init.d/redis

Set permissions on boot script

chmod +x /etc/init.d/redis

Add script to boot

update-rc.d -f redis defaults

Start Redis service up

service redis start

Redis should now be installed and will broadcast on reboot to localhost:6379 by default

Adding binaries to bash

Add Redis binaries to your bash, edit your .bashrc file

pico ~/.bashrc

Add :/opt/redis/bin to the end of your path line

PATH=$PATH:/opt/redis/bin

Reset bash

source ~/.bashrc

Note: If you'd like to test if Redis is running on your next reboot run the two commands redis-cli and then ping, it should return 'PONG'