Redis as a Windows service?

[Kevin Burton]

I am trying to install a redis server as a Windows service. So according to the directions I can do the following:

H:\Redis>H:\Redis\bin\redis-server --service-install H:\Redis\redis.windows.conf

I look at the services app and I indeed see that 'Redis' was installed as a service. But when I try to start the service I get an dialog that 'Error 2: The system could not find the file specified'. I can supply a screen-shot of the error alert but I don't think it is helpful. I am running 'Redis server v=3.0.501 sha=00000000:0 malloc=jemalloc-3.6.0 bits=64 build=ba05b51e58eb9205' of the server that I compiled using Visual Studio. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Kevin

[Enrico Giordani]

Hi Kevin,

there is a typo in the documentation, you should use the redis.windows-service.conf file not the redis.windows.conf and you don't have to pass the absolute path, just type redis-server --service-install redis.windows-service.conf.

Btw, what's the reason to compile your own binaries instead of using the provided binaries?

For future reference please use https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/issues since it's more likely you will get an answer there.

[Kevin Burton]

I am not sure where to get the provided binaries.

I copied the service conf to a local folder and renamed it to redid.windows.conf so the contents are essentially the same as the service conf.

The reason that I gave an absolute path is that the configuration is not in the same folder as the reds-server and redid-server is not in my path. Is that a problem?

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[Enrico Giordani]

You can find the MSI or the zipped binaries here: https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases
In theory the config file can be in a different folder, but we currently don't have an automated test to guarantee that it works as expected, so I suggest to put in the same folder just to make sure the problem is not caused by the file being in a different location.

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[Kevin Burton]

I don't know what is different from what I did but using the .msi at  https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases works. Thank you.

[Kevin Burton]

When I change the .conf file to point to a different folder or a different log path then it fails.

[Kevin Burton]

So it seems related to an any kind of path change to the configuration for 'logfile' and 'dir'. Any idea what the constraints for these two paths are with windows?