README.md

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 configure.

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

API Documentation for the development can be found at the Wiki Section of this repo.

Thanks to Manickam Venkatachalam for making the API documentation happen.

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>
</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