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How to Install Redis on Ubuntu 20.04

Written by Rahul, Updated on May 10, 2020

Redis is an in-memory data structure store, used as a database server, cache, and message broker. Redis is written in C programming language. It also provides a PHP module for communication between PHP script with the Redis server.

This tutorial will help you to install Redis server along with PHP extensions on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system.

Prerequisites

Before beginning the Redis server installation on Ubuntu 20.04:

  • Login to Ubuntu as sudo privileged user
  • For the newly installed systems, required to complete initial server setup
  • Step 1 – Install Redis Server

    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:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install redis-server
    

    Next is to enable Redis to start on system boot. Also restart Redis service once.

    sudo systemctl enable redis-server
    

    Step 2 – 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

    sudo vim /etc/redis/redis.conf
    

    Update the following values in Redis configuration file according to your requirement. You can increase max memory limit as per available on your server.

    maxmemory 256mb
    maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru
    

    The above configuration tells 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:

    sudo systemctl restart redis-server
    

    Step 3 – Install PHP Extension (Optional)

    Next, if you need to use Redis with PHP application, you need to install Redis PHP extension on your Ubuntu system. To install Redis PHP extension, type:

    sudo apt install php-redis
    

    The installer will automatically enable redis extension for all the pre installed PHP versions. If you installer new PHP version after this, you can use below command to enable redis module. For example to enable extension for PHP 7.4, type:

    sudo phpenmod -v 7.4 -s ALL redis
    

    Step 4 – Connect to Redis Server

    Use redis-cli tool to verify the connection between the Redis server.

    redis-cli
    
    127.0.0.1:6379> ping
    PONG
    
    

    Few more examples of redis-cli command line tool. You can find more details about redis-cli here.

    redis-cli info
    redis-cli info stats
    redis-cli info server
    

    Installing redis ubuntu 20.04

    Conclusion

    This tutorial helps you with the installation of Redis server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) system.

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I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

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