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Installation Guide

Describes how to manage the extension from a developer’s point of view.

Target group: Developers

Installation

  1. Install the extension from TER (sources are available on our GitHub repository).

In the context of a fully Composer setup, add in your root composer.json the following lines before doing a `composer update`.

"require": {
        ...
        "aoe/restler": "2.*"
}
"autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
                "Luracast\\Restler\\": "vendor/luracast/restler/vendor"
        }
},

Because we are using a forked version of Restler (in order to be able to tag a stable version), you also need to add the following to your composer.json file.

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/AOEpeople/Restler.git"
    }
],
  1. Configure this TYPO3-Extension (in TYPO3 Extension-Manager; e.g. enable the online documentation of your REST-API). See the "Screenshots" section as well.
  2. (Optional, but recommended) Install the TYPO3 Extension "TYPO3 Restler Examples".
  3. Make the .htaccess changes described below:

The ".htaccess" file needs to be changed in order to make the REST API available.

# The api_explorer/.* MUST not hit TYPO3 (index.php) otherwise the requests will fail.
# This / (target) is only to prevent this to happen.
RewriteRule ^api_explorer/.*$ / [NC,QSA,L]

For Nginx use following rule

location ~^/api_explorer/ {
        rewrite ^/api_explorer/(.*)$ / last;
}

When this is done, than you can call the online documentation of your REST API via this URL:

www.example.com/api_explorer/

You also can call your REST API via this URL:

www.example.com/api/path-to-my-rest-api-endpoints/.