How to install redis on windows

asked Jun 25, 2011 at 9:23

Historically, Microsoft had a Windows port of redis, which was released as Redis-64, which offers a full distribution of redis for Windows.

The Microsoft port is now deprecated, but some alternatives have sprung up to fill that void:

• Memurai is the alternative officially recommended on the Redis-64 deprecation page; it is a commercial offering with free developer tier, maintained by Janea Systems
• redis-windows is another unofficial port, which also exists

This release includes the redis-server.exe (memurai.exe on Memurai) application that runs a Redis instance as a service on your windows machine, as well as redis-cli.exe (memurai-cli.exe on Memurai) which you can use to interact with any Redis instance.

The RGL repository has historically been listed as an alternative Windows port for Redis, but this repository has not been maintained for some time and implements an older version of Redis than the Microsoft port.

Update

If you have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 you can do it per
Ogglas answer

Or follow these instructions to run a Redis database on Microsoft Windows

• 1. Turn on Windows Subsystem for Linux

  In Windows 10, Microsoft replaced Command Prompt with PowerShell as the default shell. Open PowerShell as Administrator and run this command to enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):

  Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
  

  Reboot Windows after making the change — note that you only need to do this once.

• 1. Launch Microsoft Windows Store

  start ms-windows-store:
  

  Then search for Ubuntu, or your preferred distribution of Linux, and download the latest version.

• 1. Install Redis server

  Installing Redis is simple and straightforward. The following example works with Ubuntu (you’ll need to wait for initialization and create a login upon first use):

  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:redislabs/redis
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo apt-get install redis-server
  

  Please note that the sudo command might or mightn’t be required based on the user configuration of your system.

• 1. Restart the Redis server

  Restart the Redis server as follows:

  sudo service redis-server restart
  

• 1. Verify if your Redis server is running

  Use the redis-cli command to test connectivity to the Redis database.

  $ redis-cli
  127.0.0.1:6379> set user:1 "Ben"
  127.0.0.1:6379> get user:1
  "Ben"
  

  Please note: By default, Redis has 0-15 indexes for databases, you can change that number of databases NUMBER in redis.conf.

• 1. Stop the Redis Server

  sudo service redis-server stop
  

Source :How to Install Redis on Windows

I found one more simple way to install Redis under Windows

Download the latest Redis .msi file from

https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases

after installation. The Redis service is installed, and we can operate it from Service manager

answered Aug 28, 2015 at 6:58

If you want to install MSOpenTech’s latest port of Redis, on a Windows server, watched over by a Windows Service, without having to build anything yourself, read on.

MSOpenTech’s seems to be the only port that is actively trying to keep up with the latest and greatest Redis. They claim it is production-ready, but they haven’t exactly packaged it up neatly for installation on a server, especially if you want to run their RedisWatcher service to keep an eye on it, which is recommended. (I tried building RedisWatcher myself per their instructions, but the required Wix Toolset managed to mess up my system pretty good. I won’t go into it.) Fortunately they’ve provided all the binaries you need, just not all in one place. From the README:

So far the RedisWatcher is not carried over to 2.6. However this
should not be affected by the Redis version, and the code in the 2.4
branch should work with the Redis 2.6 binaries.

So you’ll need to download binaries from 2 branches in order to get all the necessary bits. Without further ado, here are the steps:

1. Download and extract the Redis binaries from the 2.6 branch
2. Copy all extracted binaries to c:redisbin
3. Create another folder at c:redisinst1
4. Download and extract the RedisWatcher binaries from the 2.4 branch
5. Run InstallWatcher.msi. This should create a Windows service called Redis watcher.
6. Open up the Windows Services console and start the Redis watcher service.
7. (optional) RedisWatcher should have installed to C:Program Files (x86)RedisWatcher. There you’ll find a config file called watcher.conf, which you can edit to set up additional instances, use different paths than I specified in steps 2 & 3, etc. You will not need to restart the service for changes to take effect.

answered Nov 25, 2013 at 18:00

The most updated (only few minor releases behind) version of Redis can be found here. This repository provides you with 3.2.100 version (current is 3.2) whereas the most upvoted answer gives you only 2.4.6 version and the last update to the repo was 2 years ago.

The installation is straightforward: just copy everything from the archive to any folder and run redis-server.exe to run the server and redis-cli.exe to connect to this server through the shell.

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If you have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 you can do it like this:

Set up WSL:

1. To enable Windows Subsystem for Linux, follow the instructions on
   Microsoft Docs. The short version is: In Windows 10, Microsoft
   replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell as the default shell. Open
   PowerShell as Administrator and run this command to enable Windows
   Subsystem for Linux (WSL):

   Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
   

2. Reboot Windows after making the change—note that you only need to do this one time.

3. Download and install one of the supported Linux distros from the Microsoft Store. Ubuntu works fine.
   Note that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS may give you some trouble because of a known issue with the realtime clock (as of August 2020). Choosing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instead avoids that issue.

Install and Test Redis:

1. Launch the installed distro from your Windows Store and then install redis-server. The following example works with Ubuntu (you’ll need to wait for initialization and create a login upon first use):

   > sudo apt-get update
   > sudo apt-get upgrade
   > sudo apt-get install redis-server
   > redis-cli -v
   

2. Restart the Redis server to make sure it is running:

   > sudo service redis-server restart
   

3. Execute a simple Redis command to verify your Redis server is
   running and available:

   $ redis-cli 
   127.0.0.1:6379> set user:1 "Oscar"
   127.0.0.1:6379> get user:1
   "Oscar"
   

4. To stop your Redis server:

   > sudo service redis-server stop
   

Source:

https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-on-windows-10/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

Go to the releases and you can get a ZIP file containing the relevant files as well as a Word document called RedisService.docx with the following instructions:

Installing the Service

—service-install

This must be the first argument on the redis-server command line. Arguments after this are passed in the order they occur to Redis when the service is launched. The service will be configured as Autostart and will be launched as «NT AUTHORITYNetworkService». Upon successful installation a success message will be displayed and Redis will exit.
This command does not start the service.

For instance:

redis-server —service-install redis.windows.conf —loglevel verbose

And then later, in the same document, another example:

The following would install and start three separate instances of Redis as a service:

redis-server —service-install -–service-name redisService1 –port 10001

redis-server —service-start —service-name redisService1

redis-server —service-install —service-name redisService2 –port 10002

redis-server —service-start —service-name redisService2

redis-server —service-install —service-name redisService3 –port 10003

redis-server —service-start —service-name redisService3

From what I can gather, this appears to be the new way forward rather than messing with a separate Windows service to monitor and restart the CLI.

answered Jun 4, 2014 at 20:04

Download redis from
Download Redis for windows

• Then install it
• open cmd with admin rights
• run command net start redis

Thats it.

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 19:33

MS Open Tech recently made a version of Redis available for download on Github. They say that it isn’t production ready yet, but keep an eye on it.

Github repo

Download releases as MSIs

You can use Memurai for Windows, a Redis-compatible cache and datastore for Windows, currently compatible with Redis 5. Memurai aims to fulfill the need for a supported Redis-compatible datastore on the Windows platform. At its core, it’s based on Redis source code, ported to run natively on Windows, and it’s designed to provide the level of reliability and performance required for production environments. Memurai is free for development and testing. You can learn more and download Memurai at https://www.memurai.com.

Alexis Campailla
CEO, Memurai

answered May 15, 2019 at 1:11

There are two ways. You can use MSI installation file or do it manually:

First download the msi or the zip file:

You can download both files from here:

https://github.com/MicrosoftArchive/redis/releases

Watch video tutorial (video covers example of both installations)

See this installation video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFhlv-gBXQ

Instruction — for those who can not YT at work:

You can download a moderately out-of-date precompiled version of Redis for 32-bit
and 64-bit Windows thanks to Dusan Majkic from his GitHub page: https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads. Go ahead and do that now.

After you download Redis, you’ll need to extract the executables from the zip file.
As long as you’re using a version of Windows more recent than Windows XP, you
should be able to extract Redis without any additional software. Do that now.

After you’ve extracted either the 32- or 64-bit version of Redis to a location of your
choice (depending on your platform and preferences; remember that 64-bit Windows
can run 32- or 64-bit Redis, but 32-bit Windows can only run 32-bit Redis), you can
start Redis by double-clicking on the redis-server executable. After Redis has
started, you should see a window similar to figure A.1.

src: https://redis.com/ebook/appendix-a/a-3-installing-on-windows/a-3-2-installing-redis-on-window/

answered Nov 27, 2017 at 3:18

answered Apr 12, 2018 at 8:19

I don’t run redis on windows. There’s too much hassle involved in keeping up with the ports, and they lag behind redis-stable by a version or two all the time.

Instead I run redis on a Vagrant virtual machine that runs redis for me. I’ve bundled up the whole thing into a simple github repo so everyone can get in on the fun without too much hassle. The whole thing is an automated build so there’s no mess. I blogged about the details here.

To install Redis on Windows system follow the below steps:

1. Visit one of the below link:

https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases (recommended)
https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads

1. Download MSI file.
2. Follow the installation Wizard and install the program on your system. (do not change the installation path that is «C:Program FilesRedis»)
3. Search for «Edit system environment variable» on your start menu
4. Click on «Environment Variable» button
5. Select «Path» and click on «Edit»
6. Now click on «New»
7. Paste C:Program FilesRedis (or the path in case you have changed while installing)
8. Click on «Okay», «Okay» and «Okay»

Now open your Terminal (command prompt) and run redis-cli

Well I am getting some error to open redis-server (It was working fine till now but not sure what’s wrong so figuring out and will update this answer)

answered Jan 8, 2021 at 11:59

I think these is the two most simple ways to run Redis on Windows

1 — Native (and updated) port for Windows

As described here on Option 3) Running Microsoft’s native port of Redis:

1. Download the redis-latest.zip native 64bit Windows port of redis

wget https://github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows/raw/master/downloads/redis-latest.zip

1. Extract redis64-latest.zip in any folder, e.g. in c:redis

2. Run the redis-server.exe using the local configuration

cd c:redis

redis-server.exe redis.conf

1. Run redis-cli.exe to connect to your redis instance

cd c:redis

redis-cli.exe

2 — With Vagrant

You can use Redis on Windows with Vagrant, as described here:

1. Install Vagrant on Windows

2. Download the vagrant-redis.zip vagrant configuration

   wget https://raw.github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows/master/downloads/vagrant-redis.zip

3. Extract vagrant-redis.zip in any folder, e.g. in c:vagrant-redis

4. Launch the Virtual Box VM with vagrant up:

   cd c:vagrant-redis

   vagrant up

This will launch a new Ubuntu VM instance inside Virtual Box that will
automatically install and start the latest stable version of redis.

answered Jun 22, 2015 at 13:04

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Here are my steps to install Redis 4.0.8 on Windows 10 Pro (1709) via Windows Subsystem for Linux:

in home/user/
   01 wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-4.0.8.tar.gz
   02 tar xzf redis-4.0.8.tar.gz
   03 cd redis-4.0.8/
   04 sudo apt-get install make
   05 sudo apt-get update
   06 sudo apt-get install gcc
   07 cd deps
   08 make hiredis jemalloc linenoise lua geohash-int
   09 cd ..
   10 make

You can skip several steps if you have an up-to-date environment.

answered Feb 10, 2018 at 18:00

You can go through the below steps and get setup redis in windows.

1. Download the Redis zip file. Click here!

2. Extract the zip file to the prepared directory.

3. Run redis-server.exe, you can either directly run redis-server.exe by clicking or run via command prompt.

1. Run redis-cli.exe, after successfully running the redis-server. You can access it and test commands by running redis-cli.exe Test
   PING command is used to test if a connection is still alive.

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