Question

How to configure Laravel 5.7 with Redis TLS (Using phpredis)

Posted on August 30, 2019
Databases Redis PHP PHP Frameworks
Asked by ahmadt

I’m using laravel 5.7 with phpredis (PHP 7.2), but I’m not able to get it to work with tls, I am trying to use it with digitalocean Redis managed database which only supports tls connections.

Any idea if tls even supported with laravel/phpredis?

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ahmadt • August 31, 2019

Accepted Answer

So I managed to get this to work, basically the current phpredis version that is shipped with php 7.2 (Ubuntu 18) is old and does not support tls, to fix this I had to update phpredis from pecl (https://pecl.php.net/package/redis)

pablorsk • July 28, 2022

Error

Error while reading line from the server. [tls://private-XXX-do-user-XXX-0.b.db.ondigitalocean.com:25061]

Reason

DigitalOcean Managed Redis is not compatible with Predis.

Solution

Remove Predis and use phpredis. Phpredis is an extension for PHP.

Check if you have installed phpredis:

# php -i | grep async_redis
async_redis => enabled

Remove predis from your composer.json and add this line (good practice):

"require": {
    "php": "^8.0",
    /* ... */
    "ext-redis": "*",
    /* ... */

Change your code or .env REDIS_CLIENT value:

'redis' => [
    'client' => env('REDIS_CLIENT', 'phpredis'),

    'default' => [
        'scheme' => env('DATA_REDIS_SCHEME', 'tcp'),
        'host' => env('DATA_REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
        'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
        'database' => 0,
        // 'read_write_timeout' => 0, // is not required for DO anymore, but just in case...
    ],

    'cache' => [
    ],
],

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