Installing Redis on Linux (CentOS 6.3)

Download redis from redis.io

#wget https://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.4.17.tar.gz
#tar -xvf redis-2.4.17.tar.gz
#cd /opt/redis-2.4.17/src
#make install

now this copy redis-server, redis-cli and conf file to /usr/local/bin
open the port in firewall for redis
now make this service run on start up add the below line in rc.local

#vim /etc/rc.local

nohup /usr/local/bin/redis-server &

Close the editor and now the server will start at boot, check by redis-cli

#cd /usr/local/bin

#./redis-cli

redis 127.0.0.1:6379>

It is installed and working now.