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### 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>
```
#### 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
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```
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 -R ${whoami}:${whoami} www
```
Now update the `env.json` file with the user and database info created. All set, your code should be accessible at http://localhost