{"id":833,"date":"2016-10-29T18:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2016-11-03T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:48:09","slug":"redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/","title":{"rendered":"RedisSessionStateProvider &#8211; unknown command &#8216;EVAL&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I was trying to use <i>Redis<\/i> as session storage for one of  my ASP .NET websites. Even though it seemed to be a rather straightforward task (Scott Hanselman wrote about that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/UsingRedisAsAServiceInAzureToSpeedUpASPNETApplications.aspx\"> while ago<\/a>), I ended up with some weird exception while running the app: <i>ERR unknown command &#8216;EVAL&#8217;<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/UnknownCommandEval.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-836\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/UnknownCommandEval.png\" alt=\"unknown command 'EVAL'\" width=\"857\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/UnknownCommandEval.png 857w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/UnknownCommandEval-150x108.png 150w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/UnknownCommandEval-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis wasn\u2019t for sure a connectivity issue, as I was able to connect to <i>Redis<\/i> server from <i>Redis Client<\/i> &#8211; <i>redis-cli<\/i>. For me it looked like my server is not able to &#8220;understand&#8221; <i>EVAL<\/i> command. I started digging around and it turned out that this command has been introduced in version <a href=\"http:\/\/redis.io\/commands\/EVAL\"> 2.6.0<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve connected to the server using <i>redis-cli<\/i> and checked the version with<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\ninfo\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>command and basically that revealed the problem.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/RedisCli.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-835\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/RedisCli.png\" alt=\"rediscli\" width=\"524\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/RedisCli.png 524w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/RedisCli-150x85.png 150w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/RedisCli-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs you can see I&#8217;ve accidentally installed version 2.4.6 (I have no idea how I ended up with so old version). After upgrading to the newest one, my problem was gone and I was able to successfully store session in <i>Redis<\/i>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/Working.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-837\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/Working.png\" alt=\"working\" width=\"857\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/Working.png 1194w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/Working-150x53.png 150w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/Working-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/redissessionstateprovider-unknown-command-eval\/Working-1024x362.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I was trying to use Redis as session storage for one of my ASP .NET websites. Even though it seemed to be a rather straightforward task (Scott Hanselman wrote about that a while ago), I ended up with some weird exception while running the app: ERR unknown command &#8216;EVAL&#8217; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,83,307],"tags":[160,223,308],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-asp-net-mvc","category-redis","tag-net","tag-asp-net-mvc","tag-redis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}