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Forge installs Redis by default. From the Forge landing page https://cl.ly/e18a06cfb6e1
Dec 12, 2018
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Laravel Forge + Redis
How does Laravel Forge use Redis?
I've found redis-server and redis-tools installed via apt:
apt list --installed
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redis-server/bionic,now 5:5.0.2-3chl1~bionic1 amd64 [installed]
redis-tools/bionic,now 5:5.0.2-3chl1~bionic1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
But I can't find redis php extension installed, neither in php -m, nor in php -i.
However, I've checked - it works somehow.
Also, does anyone know - Laravel Forge pre-install PhpRedis by default or not?
(Probably not because it should be seen in php -m and php -i as well?)
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@ejdelmonico Yes, I know it.
But your answer doesn't answer my question)
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From what I recall it just sat there running, and if you use it either in your code or as part of horizon (Queues) it connected (Hostname/Port was set in my .env file).
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@gorby Yes, I use Redis on Forge too.
But I want to understand how does it work.
In order to use Redis locally, I have to install redis PHP extension.
But I can't see it installed on Forge. So, I wonder how does it work then?
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@DMITRY.G.IVANOV - You can either use the redis PHP extension or predis (https://github.com/nrk/predis) Laravel supports both, so Forge lets you decide what you want.
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@themsaid Thank you for your response!
Now I understand it.
We can use Redis with predis/predis OR with PhpRedis (which is "PHP Redis extension", it is the same).
I was confused by one of the projects where both were used in tests, so I thought that predis/predis required redis.so (and I supposed that PhpRedis is yet another extension), which is not true.
@themsaid What is the best practice for "requiring" predis/predis?
I mean, I don't need it on local environment, I need it only on production.
But Composer doesn't have something like require-prod...
So, I can "composer require" it and have loaded on every environment (which is not too bad but doesn't feel very clean...)
Or I can "composer require" it on production, but in that case, I would have unclear "git status" on production, which is worse for my eyes.
(As far as I know, there is no possibility to install the package without modifying the composer.json/composer.lock files.)
How do you handle that in your projects?
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@dmitry.g.ivanov just install it in your project even if you're only going to use it in production
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@themsaid Thank you.
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Hi. I too noticed that Larvel forge did not automatically install phpredis (php -m command shows no 'redis' listed, which is phpredis). This seems problematic (unless I am missing something?) because phpredis is the new default redis client (not predis). In fact, phpredis is also the recommended choice by Laravel.
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Just an update - newly provisioned servers will have redis installed, but if you are like me and had some prior to these changes you should run these on your server:
pecl install redis
echo "extension=redis.so" > /etc/php/7.3/mods-available/redis.ini
sudo ln -s /etc/php/7.3/mods-available/redis.ini /etc/php/7.3/fpm/conf.d/30-redis.ini >/dev/null 2>&1;
sudo ln -s /etc/php/7.3/mods-available/redis.ini /etc/php/7.3/cli/conf.d/30-redis.ini >/dev/null 2>&1;
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@nam thank you! I installed my Forge server around a year ago and was super paranoid of automatic updates so never enabled them. Then this weekend the server acted up so I did apt-get upgrade and rebooted and this stabilized the server. However, redis stopped working. Your commands are spot on, in my case, for PHP 7.4
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