Unable to start Redis server due to config file error

Isn't this issue your problem?

I had this problem, too, and had to manually copy files into place after the build.

cd ~/redis-2.4.15
mkdir redis-1.2.4-backup

sudo mv /usr/bin/redis-* ~/redis-2.4.15/redis-1.2.4-backup/ ;

sudo mv src/redis-benchmark /usr/bin/ ;
sudo mv src/redis-check-aof /usr/bin/ ;
sudo mv src/redis-check-dump /usr/bin/ ;
sudo mv src/redis-cli /usr/bin/ ;
sudo mv src/redis-server /usr/bin/ ;

sudo chown root /usr/bin/redis-* ;

I put the ; at the ends of the lines because sometimes I want to join things into a single line of shell commands.

Make sure the rest of your stuff is setup, like init.d, conf and log files.

where trying to install make sure you have necessary read/write permissions. on ubuntu make sure you run like

sudo make install