Install redis as a service shell script

redis_install.sh

VER=3.0.5

sudo apt-get update
# Install the required tools to build the source
sudo apt-get install build-essential
# Download and extract the files
wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-$VER.tar.gz
tar -xzf redis-$VER.tar.gz
cd redis-$VER
# Compile
make install

# Create a user account for Redis
sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --disabled-login --disabled-password --group redis
# Make a writable log file
sudo touch /var/log/redis.log
sudo chown redis:redis /var/log/redis.log
sudo chmod u+w /var/log/redis.log
# Make an init script
cd /etc/init.d/
wget https://gist.github.com/peterc/408762/raw -O redis
sudo chmod u+x redis
sudo update-rc.d -f redis defaults
# Make a place to store your database
sudo mkdir /var/redis
sudo chown redis:redis /var/redis
sudo chmod u+xw /var/redis

sudo mkdir /etc/redis
sudo touch /etc/redis/redis.conf
sudo chown redis:redis -R /etc/redis/

echo "daemonize yes
pidfile /var/run/redis.pid
logfile /var/log/redis.log
port 6379
# bind 127.0.0.1
# unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock
timeout 300
loglevel verbose
databases 16
save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 10000
rdbcompression yes
dbfilename dump.rdb
dir /var/redis/
# requirepass foobared" > /etc/redis/redis.conf

One important note:

In case you have redis server and other clients inside /usr/local/bin you have to change config file. This is case for Debian distribution.

nano /etc/init.d/redis
and change this line


DAEMON=/usr/bin/redis-server 
to 
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/redis-server

Now you can start the service with

sudo service redis start

connect to your redis with cli like this

redis-cli