Software installation prerequisites

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Internet connection

Installing API Portal dependencies requires an Internet connection. Offline installation is not currently supported.

Hardware requirements

The minimum hardware requirements are:

• 2 Ghz Dual Core Intel Core or AMD Opteron or faster
• 8 GB RAM
• 40 GB free disk space

Software requirements

API Portal has the following requirements for software components:

Operating system

You must have Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7/8 or CentOS 7 installed.

Database

You must have one of the following databases installed:

• MySQL 5.7 or MySQL 8

  MySQL 8 is only proved to be working in combination with PHP 8.0. API Portal has not yet been tested with MySQL 8 and PHP lower than version 8.0.

• MariaDB 10.4 or later

PHP

API Portal requires PHP 7.3 through 8.0. We strongly recommend you to use only officially supported PHP versions.

In addition, you must have the following PHP packages installed:

• php-cli
• php-common
• php-gd
• php-intl
• php-json
• php-mbstring
• php-mysqld or php-mysqli
• php-openssl
• php-pdo
• php-xml
• php-zip

Other software

API Portal requires the following to be installed:

• API Manager 7.7 (API Portal and API Manager releases must match.)

  The monitoring feature of API Portal, which enables your API consumers to monitor application and API usage, requires a connected API Manager with monitoring metrics enabled.

• Apache 2.4

• OpenSSL

Install dependencies

For more information on installing dependencies, see:

• Install Apache HTTP Server and PHP
• Install and configure database server
• Configure Redis cache