I'm trying to write a RESTful API for my Android app. I am trying to write the server in PHP, and I'm trying to host it on a WAMP server. I want to be able to GET, PULL, PUT, and DELETE. In class, our professor showed us an example of how he configured his server, but he used MAMP (for Macintosh), which seems to have a different file hierarchy than WAMP. He showed us that our index.php server file goes into this folder, and I'll use an api folder for the example:
MAMP -> htdocs -> api -> index
When I access the URL localhost:8080/api/, it should execute a particular GET request.
He also noted that we needed to enable aliasing. So in the MAMP -> conf -> httpd.conf, we added Alias /quotes "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/api/index.php".
But, I'm unable to get this work with my WAMP server. I noticed that it is a bit different in file heirarchy. To access the htdocs and conf folder I have to do the following:
WAMP->bin->apache->Apache2.4.4->htdocs
WAMP->bin->apache->Apache2.4.4->conf
and I modified my conf file as such: Alias /quotes "/WAMP/bin/apache/Apache2.4.4/htdocs/api/index.php"
So do I configure the WAMP differently? Do I need to move the conf and htdocs folders into the root WAMP folder? I tried putting my api into the WAMP->www directory, but it wouldn't work for the following GET request.
//GET /api/2 Gets someone based on primary key
I tried looking at many tutorials, and I found many that were great in explaining API's and how to code an API that handles requests, but I was unable to find one that shows how to configure the server and get that working.
Any help, explanations, links to resources would be helpful and very appreciated. Thank you
I found the solution:
I needed to put my api folder in the c:/wamp/www folder.
My httpd.conf was in the right spot. (/bin/apache/Apache2.4.4/conf), but my line for aliasing was incorrect, it should have been:
Alias /quotes "c:/wamp/www/api/index.php"
The URL i needed to navigate was:
http://localhost:8080/quotes (Because I aliased it.)
And of course, I needed to restart my WAMP server once I modified the httpd.conf file.
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