API Development Course by LAHTP

To get started, clone this repository to a proper document root. For XAMPP, this is htdocs. For private apache setup, its upto you how you configiure.

This code is right now accessible at: https://api1.selfmade.ninja

Right outside the document root, create a file called env.json and keep the contents of the file similar to the following.

{
	"database": "apis",
	"username": "root",
	"password": "password",
	"server": "localhost",
	"email_api_key": "Your_Sendgrid_Key"
}

This will be called by the API functions to get the database connection.

This project is under development.

Virtual Host Apache Configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin hello@sibidharan.me       
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/api-development-course-apr-2021"
    ServerName api1.selfmade.ninja 

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory "/var/www/api-development-course-apr-2021">
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

# Added automatically by LetsEncrypt
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =api1.selfmade.ninja
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=307]
</VirtualHost>

In the above configuration, env.json should sit exactly /var/www/env.json here.

Configuring your own Ubuntu Setup

Reference: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04

1. Update and upgrade the system first.

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

2. Install Apache, MySQL and PHP

$ sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php mysql-server php-mysql

3. Secure MySQL Database

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

and follow the onscreen steps. For more info, check the above link.

4. Create a Database

$ mysql -u root -p
Password:

Enter the password you have given for root during mysql_secure_installation and you can see the following promot.

mysql>

From here, we need to create a database called apis.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE apis;

We also need to create a mysql username and password and give the database previleges for the database we created.

mysql> CREATE USER 'apiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'apiuser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> exit
Bye

5. Now fix the file permissions for /var/www folder like you own it. The below command will change the owner of the foler /var/www as you, so that no errors will come when you try to edit or create.

$ cd /var
$ sudo chown $(whoami):$(whoami) -R www

Now update the env.json file with the user and database info created. All set, your code should be accessible at http://localhost