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.