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Last active February 11, 2025 00:48
Run redis inside WSL as background service on Windows startup

Step by step guide to run redis-server inside WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux) on Windows

I have tried to setup redis as starting background task with wsl-autostart, Task Scheduler and with lot vbs scripts including one described here but none of them seemed to work.

In the end I have manually created a simple one that does the job. This script basically starts a hidden Ubuntu Window and starts redis-server inside it.

  1. Install WSL (this is tested with Ubuntu 18.04 version)
  2. Install redis-server inside WSL sudo apt install redis-server
  3. Add sudo permission to your user to execute service command without password