want to run redis-server in background nonstop

Question

I have downloaded redis-2.6.16.tar.gz file and i installed sucessfully. After installed i run src/redis-server it worked fine.

But i don't want manually run src/redis-server everytime, rather i want redis-server running as background process continuously.

So far after installed i did following tasks:

1. vim redis.conf and i changed to

# By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it.
# Note that Redis will write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid when daemonized.
  daemonize yes

But same result i found. What mistake i did?

After redis run in background. I will run juggernaut also as background process with following command.

nohup node server.js

But i am not able to make redis run in background. Please provide some solution.

Answer 1

Since Redis 2.6 it is possible to pass Redis configuration parameters using the command line directly. This is very useful for testing purposes.

redis-server --daemonize yes

Check if the process started or not:

ps aux | grep redis-server

Answer 2

For windows:

Step 1: Install redis as a service

redis-server --server-install 

Step 2: Run background

redis-server --server-start 

Answer 3

Or you can simply run it as src/redis-server redis.conf&

Answer 4

To run redis server in background and ignore output .

nohup redis-server &

To check the server

ps aux | grep redis-server 

To Kill server

sudo service redis-server stop

Answer 5

You can use PM2 when you want to run an application in the background.

• Download pm2 package as global by npm. https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2
  • npm i -g pm2
• Then you can start the redis server.
  • pm2 start "redis-server" --name redis-caching-session

You can check pm2 sessions by pm2 status command and get logs of redis server by pm2 logs redis-caching-server command.

Edit: After 9 years, I just saw this post :) This answer may help other people so why I want to share.

Answer 6

I think the best way is to use Redis' config file:

# By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it.
# Note that Redis will write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid when daemonized.
daemonize yes

Set daemonize to yes in the config file. Say the file is ~/.redis/redis.conf, then just run

$ redis-server ~/.redis/redis.conf

And it just works.