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

Hello,

I’ve created a step by step guide on how to do that along with a short video demo for anyone who is experiencing the same issue:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-setup-laravel-with-digitalocean-managed-redis-cluster

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

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.

1. Check if you have installed phpredis:

# php -i | grep async_redis
async_redis => enabled

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

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

3. 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' => [
    ],
],