Redis on Ubuntu (9.04)
A small howto to get the latest redis-server and a webinterface on Ubuntu.
Installation
$ wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_1.2.5-1_amd64.deb ... $ sudo dpkg -i redis-server_1.2.5-1_amd64.deb ... $ /etc/init.d/redis-server start
... redis should listen on localhost:6379.
You may need to get i386 instead of amd64 if you run 32bit.
Tweaks
You may need to add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:
vm.overcommit_memory = 1
... that is, especially if you run in a VE (e.g. inside xen).
All other configs are in /etc/redis/redis.conf.
Web
Because web interfaces are so simple, I decided to get redweb.
Dependencies
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-support/python-support_1.0.7_all.deb dpkg -i python-support_1.0.7_all.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-redis/python-redis_1.34.1-1_all.deb dpkg -i python-redis_1.34.1-1_all.deb
So, on Ubuntu, python-support is at 0.8.4 currently, but we'll need something equal or greater than 0.9.0. This is why I update python-support from Debian.
Installation
git clone http://github.com/tnm/redweb ./redweb-git
Patch redweb-git/redweb/redweb.py with:
index e79a062..e278fca 100644
--- a/redweb/redweb.py
+++ b/redweb/redweb.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ __author__ = 'Ted Nyman'
__version__ = '0.2.2'
__license__ = 'MIT'
+import sys
+sys.path.append('/path/to/redweb-git/')
from bottle import route, request, response, view, send_file, run
import redis
Run!
cd redweb-git/redweb/ python redweb.py
... this is a bit annoying. If you do python redweb/redweb.py, it'll complain about missing files.
Then browse to http://127.0.0.1:8080.
Fin
So this is my redis-server howto — nice and simple.
And once you have Redis up and running, feel free to browse over to Rediska and use their session handling for Zend Framework. Setup is pretty simple and it works like a charm. :-) I'd suggest you use their trunk code, which is hosted on Github as it will contain a few improvements and a small bugfix which I did.
For more on Rediska, watch this space. ;-)