Redis Installation

Installation

To install the Redis on Ubuntu, go to terminal and type the following commands:

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install redis-server

This will install redis on your machine.

Start Redis

$redis-server

Starting redis command line

$redis-cli

This will open a redis prompt, as shown below:

127.0.0.1:6379>

In the above prompt 127.0.0.1 is your machine's IP address and 6379 is a port on which redis server is running. Now type the PING command as shown below.

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ping
PONG

This shows that you have successfully installed redis on your machine.

To install Redis on Centos you may use yum install redis

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