Install Redis on Windows

Redis is not officially supported on Windows. However, you can install install Redis on Windows for development by the following the instructions below.

To install Redis on Windows, you'll first need to enable WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). WSL2 lets you run Linux binaries natively on Windows. For this method to work, you'll need to be running Windows 10 version 2004 and higher or Windows 11.

Install or enable WSL2

Microsoft provides detailed instructions for installing WSL. Follow these instructions, and take note of the default Linux distribution it installs. This guide assumes Ubuntu.

Install Redis

Once you're running Ubuntu on Windows, you can install Redis using apt-get:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:redislabs/redis
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install redis-server

Then start the Redis server like so:

sudo service redis-server start

Connect to Redis

You can test that your Redis server is running by connecting with the Redis CLI:

redis-cli 
127.0.0.1:6379> ping
PONG