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@stueynet Well, obviously the server will need Redis itself installed. The predis library is just a client to interact with Redis in PHP.
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Does redis caching require anything on than predis/predis?
I am wondering if using redis for caching will just work on any server if predis/predis is installed. Seems to work fine in Homestead and on Forge but our production server is not on Forge so I want to make sure Forge doesn't do anything in the background to get it ready for redis caching. Thanks!
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Thanks @martinbean thats what I was thinking. So that means that homestead and forge automatically get that all up and running automagically, since it literally just worked after
composer require predis/predis
and then changing .env:
CACHE_DRIVER=redis
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@stueynet Yes. Homestead comes pre-built with Redis: https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead#introduction (look under “Included Software” heading).
I’m not sure how Forge goes about provisioning Redis as I’ve not used Forge.
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