Install Redis

To install Redis, SSH into your server as the root user and run the following command.

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Once installed, Redis will listen on port 6379.

Caution

By default, the data stored in Redis will be accessible to all apps on your server.

Note

To interact with Redis from PHP, install the PHP Redis extension.

View Redis activity

While developing or debugging your application, you can view every command processed by the Redis server by running the following command.

redis-cli monitor

Example output:

1339518083.107412 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "keys" "*"
1339518087.877697 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "dbsize"
1339518090.420270 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "set" "x" "6"
1339518096.506257 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
1339518099.363765 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "del" "x"
1339518100.544926 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"

Use Ctrl-C to exit monitoring.