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:
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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.
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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
orphp-mysqli
php-openssl
php-pdo
php-xml
php-zip
Note
Names of the packages may differ depending on the operating system.Other software
API Portal requires the following to be installed:
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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.
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Apache 2.4
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OpenSSL
Install dependencies
For more information on installing dependencies, see: