Set Up and Launch Your Initial API

This tutorial guides you on how to create a sample API and validate it. You will complete the following steps:

1. Create a httpbin service, within a route and a upstream that points to httpbin.org.
2. Publish the service to make the API accessible.
3. Use cURL to send a test request to see how API7 Enterprise Edition proxies and forwards the request.

Prerequisites

1. Complete Install API7 Enterprise Edition.
2. Obtain a User Account with Super Admin or API Provider Role.

Add a Service

1. Select Services , then click Add Service.
2. Choose Manually.
3. Enter httpbin as the Name, then click Next.

4. Confirm the service name. Host and path prefix configuration is not needed in this tutorial. Click Next.

5. Choose HTTP as the Upstream Scheme.
6. Enter httpbin.org as the Upstream URL.
7. Click Add.

Add a Route

1. On the Routes table of the service, click Add Route.
2. Enter getting-started-ip as Route Name, /ip as path, select all as HTTP Methods. Then click Add:

Validate

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9080/ip"

The expected response is similar to the following:

{
  "origin": "183.94.122.205"
}