> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.mochahost.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# cPanel Redis

## cPanel Redis

[Redis](https://redis.io/) is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes with radius queries. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence.

### Activate Redis for PHP from PHP Selector

1. Login into your cPanel account
2. Go to **Select PHP version**
3. **Enable redis extension**

For more information about PHP Selector, please refer to the following [article](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/635) .

### Activate Redis server for your account

1. Login to cPanel

2. Click on **“Mocha Redis”**

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_redis/redis-1.png)

3. Enable Redis for your cPanel account by clicking on **“Start”** button

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_redis/redis-2.png)

4. Now, your Redis server is up and running, you should use **IP address, Port and Password from the cPanel plugin** in order to connect your web application witb Redis

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/cpanel_redis/redis-3.png)

5. You are ready to configure your Applications to use Redis, we have the following list of articles available:

[WordPress + Redis configuration](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/872)

[Joomla + Redis configuration](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/886)

[Drupal + Redis configuration](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/887)

NOTE: You MUST configure your actual applications to use Redis, the applications won't be able to use the Redis caching automatically.