Redis on Windows

This project contains the binary releases of MS Open Tech redis port of windows as well as a vagrant configuration for redis letting you run the native version of Redis in a Virtual Box VM.

Whilst it's recommended to use Redis on Linux in production, it is often useful for developers on Windows platforms to have their own local version of redis running to develop with.

The 2 most popular ways of running redis on windows is to use the binary releases of Microsoft's native port of redis, but as this is an unofficial port it always lags behind the latest official development of redis on linux/OSX.

Thanks to Vagrant you can also run the latest linux version inside a Virutal Box Linux VM, which as it lets you run the official native version of redis, is our preferred approach:

Running the latest version of Redis with Vagrant

1. Install Vagrant on Windows

2. Download the vagrant-redis.zip vagrant configuration

wget https://raw.github.com/mythz/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.

The vagrant configuration was originally from JasonPunyon/redishobo and has been modified to use the latest stable release of Redis.

Running Microsoft's native port of Redis

These 64-bit binary releases are created by building the Microsoft's native port of redis which have also been published on NuGet, but as it's more convenient we provide a zip of the 64-bit binaries here.

1. Download the redis64-latest.zip native 64bit Windows port of redis

wget https://raw.github.com/mythz/redis-windows/master/downloads/redis64-latest.zip

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

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

cd c:\redis
redis-server.exe redis.conf

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

cd c:\redis
redis-cli.exe

5. Start plaing with redis :)

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SET foo bar
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> KEYS *
1) "foo"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> GET foo
"bar"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379>