Installing and Configuring Standalone Redis on Windows Systems

Redis is an open source underlying Key-Value storage database written in C language.

Redis is used as a state server in Web clusters, mainly for storing cached logins, template locks, sessionIDs, etc., and plays a role in authenticating all accesses and operations.

2.1 Download Redis

You can download the corresponding version for Windows on GitHub at https://github.com/MicrosoftArchive/redis/releases  , and you can choose the latest version to download.

Note: The mis file is the Microsoft installation version, the zip file is the unpacked version, here we download the zip package, unpack it and use it.

If you don't have access to GitHub, you can also download it directly by clicking Redis-x64-3.2.100.zip ：Redis-x64-3.2.100.zip

2.2 Installing Redis

Create a new folder on the D drive, e.g. D:\redis, and extract the files from Redis-x64-3.2.100.zip to that folder

2.3 Modify the configuration file

Edit profileredis.windows.conf，Modify the following：

bind 127.0.0.1 ---> # bind 127.0.0.1
protected-mode yes ---> protected-mode no
# requirepass foobared ---> requirepass 123456  #123456 is the password can be replaced 
by any
port 6379 ---> port 7379  #Change the port to 7379
maxmemory 4294967296  # Configure memory to 4G unit is byte, can also 
be configured to other sizes, the recommended size is 4G (need to add content)
maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru # Expiration policy, LRU Least Recent
 Use algorithm (content to be added)

2.4 Starting Redis

cmd enter  Redis Directory ，execute the redis-server.exe redis.windows.conf statement and the following will appear to indicate a successful startup.