Redis Default Config Not Found

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I'm following this tutorial to setup a Redis server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-redis

and getting this error message:

Mmmmm... the default config is missing. Did you switch to the utils directory?

I'm in the /utils directory, but there doesn't appear to be a default config. From the documentation I've read online, it seems like the config should have been created upon setup. Is this something I have to make manually or is this an installation error? My 'make test' command ran successfully, so I don't know why the config file wouldn't have been set up automatically.

What version of ubuntu are you using? I had the same problem. I was following an installation tutorial of Ubuntu 14.04. For Ubuntu 16.04 you may copy the configuration file redis.conf from the place you made the 'untar' to /etc/redis in order to work — Juan Rivillas, Sep 26 '16 at 13:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '20 at 19:34

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If you're on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you can get this error if you put your Redis folder somewhere that has a path name containing whitespace.

So, like if you put it in the "Program Files" folder. I migrated mine out to just the C:\ drive (or /mnt/c/ for WSL), and it worked just fine.

answered Jan 27 '20 at 19:34

Ian

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Note: I did copy my redis.conf file out to `/etc/redis/` and into the `utils/` folder, but the code is looking to step _back_ out of the `utils/` folder to find that config. From looking at the script, I'm not sure I needed to copy it anywhere, just had that whitespace conflict in the path. – Ian Jan 27 '20 at 19:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '16 at 15:14

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Had to manually copy default config from the dir above into the correct dir.

answered May 25 '16 at 15:14

bvecc

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What do you mean by from the dir above? – Richa Sinha Feb 15 '18 at 13:34
Copy what file? redis.conf? – MrU Jan 06 '19 at 14:33

Redis Default Config Not Found

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