If redis on seperate machine than nextcloud, which ones gets php-redis?

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Nextcloud version: 18.0.7
Operating system and version: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (in an LXC Container running on Ubuntu 20.04)
Apache or nginx version: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
PHP version: PHP 7.3.19-1~deb10u1 (cli)

The issue you are facing:

  • I am trying to add caching.
  • Because of issues caused by having my instance in an LXC Contianer, I have apparmor issues that caused me to run OnlyOffice on a KVM VM. (not important to this question except to know I have a seperate VM for OnlyOffice)
  • These same issues prevent me from running redis-server on my LXC container.
  • Solution: install redis-server on the same VM that is running onlyoffice!
  • Success!
  • Review docs to see how to connect Nextcloud to redis.
  • See that I also need php-redis… (https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/18/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html#id2)

QUESTION: Which machine needs php-redis? My VM running redis-server doesn’t even have PHP installed. I figure php-redis is either

  1. Needed by Nextcloud to communicate with redis (therefore install on Nextcloud container)
  2. Needed by redis to do its magic (therefore install both php and php-redis on the redis VM)

(Removed other parts of template as this is not an error)

I really don’t want to install php on a server if it doesn’t need it. Which server needs php-redis?

Thanks, Rhys

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Update:

I installed php-redis on my Nextcloud instance on the LXC Container, because it was the less involved option, so why not try it.
I add the following to my config.php:

  'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
  'redis' => [
      'host' => '10.0.3.201',
      'port' => 6380,
  ],
  'memcache.locking' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',

Then I fully rebooted my LXC container, but still get the notification that i should enable caching on my Nextcloud overview page. Nextcloud Logs don’t indicate anything about caching failing or otherwise. Redis logs on the VM don’t indicate any connection attempts, not that I would know what I’m looking for, this is the first time I’ve used redis.
I did validate that the container (Nextcloud instance) could connect to redis on the VM by installing redis-tools and successfully connecting to it with redis-cli -h 10.0.3.201 -p 6380.

Not sure where to look next. Thanks for any help,
Rhys