Open Redis port for remote connections

Question

I can ping pong Redis on the server:

# redis-cli ping
PONG

But remotely, I got problems:

$ src/redis-cli -h REMOTE.IP ping
         


        

Answer 1

A quick note that if you are using AWS ec2 instance then there is one more extra step that I believe is also mandatory. I missed the step-3 and it took me whole day to figure out to add an inbound rule to security group

Step 1(as previous): in your redis.conf change bind 127.0.0.1 to bind 0.0.0.0

Step2(as previous): in your redis.conf change protected-mode yes to protected-mode no

important for Amazon Ec2 Instance:

Step3: In your current ec2 machine go to the security group. add an inbound rule for custom TCP with 6379 port and select option "use from anywhere".