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How to Install Redis on Windows

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Author:
Ajeet Raina, Former Developer Growth Manager at Redis

You can run Redis on Windows 10 using Windows Subsystem for Linux(a.k.a WSL2). WSL2 is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. WSL2 lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment (that includes command-line tools, utilities, and applications) directly on Windows.

Follow these instructions to run a Redis database on Microsoft Windows 10.

Step 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.

Step 2: Launch Microsoft Windows Store​

 start ms-windows-store:

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

Step 3: 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
note

The sudo command may or may not be required based on the user configuration of your system.

Step 4: Restart the Redis server​

Restart the Redis server as follows:

 sudo service redis-server restart

Step 5: 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 "Jane"
 127.0.0.1:6379> get user:1
"Jane"
note

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

Step 6: Stop the Redis Server​

 sudo service redis-server stop

Next Steps​

How to run Redis GUI tool on Windows​

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Follow this tutorial in order to run RedisInsight on Windows

Model Redis data in your .NET Applications​

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Learn how to connect to a Redis database with Redis OM Dotnet

References​

Redis University​

Check out this video if you want to see Redis on Windows 10 Home Edition in action.