Installing Redis on Mac OS X

1. Download Redis installation package

Open Browser input address: http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz Download the latest Redis stable installation package

Mac OS downloaded files are saved by default under the downloads file.

2. Compiling & Installing Redis

Open terminal into Downloads directory: CD Downloads,

Unzip the Redis installation package that you just downloaded: Tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz, redis-stable directory will be generated in the downloads directory.

Enter this directory in the terminal: CD redis-stable,

Compiling source code: Make

After successful compilation, the Redis-server (Redis service) and REDIS-CLI (Redis command line client) are generated under REDIS-STABLE/SRC.

Copy Redis-server and REDIS-CLI to/usr/local/bin/

sudo cp redis-server/usr/local/bin/

sudo cp redis-cli/usr/local/bin/

3. Start Redis-server

Starting Redis on the terminal input redis-server, if successful, the following prompt will appear:

4. Start REDIS-CLI

Another open terminal window, enter: REDIS-CLI, appears

127.0.0.1:6379>, then enter Ping, as shown

127.0.0.1:6379> Ping

PONG

Indicates that Redis is working correctly

Installing Redis on Mac OS X