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Setup Redis on Windows 7 without Admin Access

If you do not have Administrator access on your windows machine but want to run redis server locally then follow this guide and get started with installation of redis server and client using command line. If you are linux users then check how to install redis without root access.

  1. Create new directory to hold Redis native binaries
    2. cd C:\Users\techmonger\Documents
md Programs
cd Programs
  2. Download Redis binary files from following url and extract it inside Program directory

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

  3. Start Redis server from Program directory 
    4. cd C:\Users\techmonger\Documents\Programs
redis-server.exe redis.windows.conf

                _._
           _.-``__ ''-._
      _.-``    `.  `_.  ''-._           Redis 3.0.503 (00000000/0) 64 bit
  .-`` .-```.  ```\/    _.,_ ''-._
 (    '      ,       .-`  | `,    )     Running in standalone mode
 |`-._`-...-` __...-.``-._|'` _.-'|     Port: 6379
 |    `-._   `._    /     _.-'    |     PID: 53522
  `-._    `-._  `-./  _.-'    _.-'
 |`-._`-._    `-.__.-'    _.-'_.-'|
 |    `-._`-._        _.-'_.-'    |           http://redis.io
  `-._    `-._`-.__.-'_.-'    _.-'
 |`-._`-._    `-.__.-'    _.-'_.-'|
 |    `-._`-._        _.-'_.-'    |
  `-._    `-._`-.__.-'_.-'    _.-'
      `-._    `-.__.-'    _.-'
          `-._        _.-'
              `-.__.-'

[10488] 13 Jan 16:48:24.849 # Server started, Redis version 3.0.503
[10488] 13 Jan 16:48:24.850 * The server is now ready to accept connections
on port 6379
[10488] 13 Jan 10:03:25.000 * 1 changes in 900 seconds. Saving...
[10488] 13 Jan 10:03:25.013 * Background saving started by pid 53522
[10488] 13 Jan 10:03:25.213 # fork operation complete
[10488] 13 Jan 10:03:25.289 * Background saving terminated with success

    Above will start redis server locally on the port 6379. Configuration to start the server is stored inside redis.windows.conf in the same directory. You can modify this file to change configuration values. For example to change port on which redis would run can be achieved by modifying following line. 

    # Accept connections on the specified port, default is 6379.
# If port 0 is specified Redis will not listen on a TCP socket.
port 6379

  4. Start Redis client from Program directory 
    5. redis-cli.exe 

127.0.0.1:6379 > ping

PONG

Conclusion

Using above method you can setup both redis client and server on the windows machine. Since default ephemeral port no 6379 is used by redis server there wont be need to configure firewall which otherwise would have been required.

Tagged Under : Open Source Redis Windows

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