Redis on CentOS 6

Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value cache and store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and hyperloglogs. In this documentation, I will show how to install Redis on CentOS 6.

Install Development Tools

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Download and extract latest Redis package from http://redis.io/

wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.19.tar.gz
tar zxf redis-2.8.19.tar.gz

Go to redis directory and run make

cd redis-2.8.19
make

it is a good idea to run make test

sudo yum install tcl
make test

Then run make install

sudo make install

Add /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin to your secure_path in /etc/sudoers

Install as service

sudo ./utils/install-server.sh
Welcome to the redis service installer
This script will help you easily set up a running redis server

Please select the redis port for this instance: [6379]
Selecting default: 6379
Please select the redis config file name [/etc/redis/6379.conf]
Selected default - /etc/redis/6379.conf
Please select the redis log file name [/var/log/redis_6379.log]
Selected default - /var/log/redis_6379.log
Please select the data directory for this instance [/var/lib/redis/6379]
Selected default - /var/lib/redis/6379
Please select the redis executable path [/usr/local/bin/redis-server]
Selected config:
Port           : 6379
Config file    : /etc/redis/6379.conf
Log file       : /var/log/redis_6379.log
Data dir       : /var/lib/redis/6379
Executable     : /usr/local/bin/redis-server
Cli Executable : /usr/local/bin/redis-cli
Is this ok? Then press ENTER to go on or Ctrl-C to abort.
Copied /tmp/6379.conf => /etc/init.d/redis_6379
Installing service...
Successfully added to chkconfig!
Successfully added to runlevels 345!
Starting Redis server...
Installation successful!

Test your redis installation

redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379>INFO

Reference: http://redis.io/download