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

Another possibly helpful note.

Redis can be bound to multiple IPs - that's very helpful when you don't want to open it to entire world (0.0.0.0) but only make it accessible in local networks.

1. sudo nano /etc/redis/redis.conf
2. add your local network IP to the end of bind setting:

bind 127.0.0.1 10.0.0.1

3. restart the service: sudo service redis-server restart

Now you can easily access redis from other computers in same network, e.g. redis-cli -h 10.0.0.1