05-20 Redis Config

Today I spent most of my time reading the Redis Documentation and set up the configuration for my project. The reason why it took me so long to get Lumen/Redis set up was that I didnt realize that I had to make the config folder of the full version of laravel myself. Now it works.

The specifics of what I did (boring)

After taking note of that, I copied the default full laravel configs and changed the drivers for my predis installation. I also spent a long time trying to install PECL and redis on windows, which is always an annoying process. Because I would have had to copy paste the .dlls and executables around my xampp and php executables and mess with the apache php handler and zend engine config, I decided to just use ubuntu under Windows Subsystem for Linux. This allows me to use the apt package manager for installing all kinds of things in a local windows installation. What I also tried was to run VScode using a remote host extension directly on my server downstairs. It crashed quite often when running sudo commands, so I ditched that quickly.

I expect more speed gains when running on the production server, since my current configuration has been running over wifi and uses the default apache 2.0 handler for processes. On the production server I have an installation of php-fm, which is better performance wise. The backend is also connected via ethernet.