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Redis 2.2 Install on Ubuntu 10.04

Installation commands:

wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.2.2.tar.gz
tar xvfz redis-2.2.2.tar.gz 
cd redis-2.2.2/
mkdir -p /opt/redis
make PREFIX=/opt/redis install
cp redis.conf /opt/redis/redis.conf
sudo useradd redis
chown -R redis:redis /opt/redis
touch /var/log/redis.log
chown redis:redis /var/log/redis.log

Create this upstart script at /etc/init/redis-server.conf:

description "redis server"

start on runlevel [23]
stop on shutdown

exec sudo -u redis /opt/redis/bin/redis-server /opt/redis/redis.conf

respawn

And run it!

sudo start redis-server
sudo restart redis-server
sudo stop redis-server
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