This tutorial will help you with the installation of the Redis server on a Debian Linux system. The PHP application also required Redis PHP extensions to work.
Step 1 – Prerequsities
First of all, Log in to your system with sudo privilege account using shell access, to which you need to install Redis. Update the apt-get packages index files and also update existing packages to the newest versions. Run the following commands from terminal:
Step 2 – Install Redis on Debian
The Redis packages are available under the default apt repository. For the installation of Redis on an Ubuntu VPS. Run below command from the terminal to install Redis on your machine: Next is to enable Redis to start on system boot. Also, restart Redis service once.
Step 3 – Configure Redis
Redis can be started without a configuration file using a built-in default configuration. But to make any extra parameter changes you can use its configuration file that is: /etc/redis/redis.conf. Edit the Redis configuration file in a text editor to make changes Update the following values in Redis configuration file according to your requirement. You can increase max memory limit as per available on your server. Use the above configuration with Redis to remove any key using the LRU algorithm when the max memory of 256mb is reached. Save the configuration file and restart the Redis service:
Step 4 – Install Redis PHP Extension
To access the Redis server from a PHP application required php-redis extension. You also need to install this extension on your application server. So that your PHP application can communicate with the Redis server. Install this extension by running the following command:
Step 5 – Test Connection
Use redis-cli tool to verify the connection between the Redis server and redis-cli. Access redis-cli terminal and type “ping”, You will get “PONG” in response with the successful connection.
