Install Redis and set multiple Redis instances on Mac OS | Codexpedia
Install Redis with brew, if you don’t have brew installed yet, google how to install brew on Mac.
To have redis started on login.
1 | ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
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Start redis with launchctl.
1 | launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
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Start redis with redis-server command.
1 | redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
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To enter redis interactive console.
To list all keys in redis.
To clear all redis keys.
To exit redis interactive console.
To set a new instance of redis, all you need is a new redis config file, start redis with that config file and you will have a second redis instance up and running.
1. Copy the default redis config file that is used for the default redis instance.
1 | cp /usr/local/etc/redis.conf /usr/local/etc/redis2.conf
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2. Open the redis2.conf and change the configuration for deamonize, pidfile, port, unixsocket, logfile and dbfilename to the below
1 2 3 4 5 6 | daemonize yes
pidfile /usr/local/var/run/redis-2.pid
port 6380
unixsocket /tmp/redis-2.sock
logfile "/usr/local/var/log/redis-2.log"
dbfilename dump-2.rdb
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3. Create launch on login config file.
1 | cp ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis2.plist
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4. Open ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis2.plist and change the configuration as need so it will look like the below
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<dict>
<key>SuccessfulExit</key>
<false/>
</dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>homebrew.mxcl.redis2</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/opt/redis/bin/redis-server</string>
<string>/usr/local/etc/redis2.conf</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/usr/local/var</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/usr/local/var/log/redis-2.log</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/usr/local/var/log/redis-2.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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5. Load redis with the plist file
1 | launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis2.plist
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6. Start redis with the config file.
1 | redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis2.conf
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7. To have redis launch on start
1 | ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
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8. To enter the second redis instance interactive console.