Developer Services Portal v. 4.16.09
Apigee Developer Channel Services is a template portal for content and community management. It is based on the open source Drupal (www.drupal.org) project. The default setup allows creating and managing API documentation, forums, and blogs. A built-in test console allows testing of APIs in real time from within the portal.
Apart from content management, Developer Channel Services has various features for community management such as manual/automatic user registration and moderating user comments. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model controls the access to features on the Developer Channel Services. For example, you can enable controls to allow registered user to create forum posts, use test consoles, and so on.
This version of this document has details specific to version 4.16.09. Any references that are specific to previous versions are oversights and should be reported as bugs.
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Supported Network Topologies
The components of the Apigee Developer Channel Services can be installed in different network configurations, or topologies, including:
- Single machine - All Apigee Developer Channel Services components installed on a single machine.
- Small - The Drupal MySQL database is installed on a separate machine from the other components.
The following figure shows the single-machine topology where all components of the Apigee Developer Channel Services are installed on a single machine:
In this figure, the Public core contains the components that are publicly accessible. The Private core contains components that are not publicly accessible.
|
Component |
Description |
Installed by |
|
ELB |
An Enterprise Load Balancer (ELB). |
Your network provider. For example, both Amazon and Rackspace provide Enterprise load balancers for use with their instances. |
|
Apache Server Version 2.2 |
Depending on your topology, you can have a single Apache server instance (single machine and small) or multiple (medium and large). For medium and large, you must provide a way to synchronize the instances. |
Apigee |
|
Apache Solr |
The Drupal search server. Apache Solr uses the Apache Lucene search library. |
Apigee, but it is not enabled by default. Only enable it if you have a large amount of data on the portal. See Developer Services portal installation for instructions on enabling it. |
|
MySQL 5.0.15 or later |
The database used by Drupal. For the small, medium, and large topologies, the MySQL instance is on a different machine from the other components. |
Apigee, or connect to an existing installation. If MySQL is installed by the Apigee installer, it installs the latest version available for your OS. If you want to connect to a remote MySQL installation, it must be version 5.0.15 or later. |
|
MariaDB 5.1.38 or later |
If you install the portal on RedHat 7 or CentOS 7, then the installation script installs MariaDB and not MySQL. MariaDB is functionally equivalent to MySQL. |
Apigee, or connect to an existing installation. If MariaDB is installed by the Apigee installer, it installs the latest version available for your OS. If you want to connect to a remote MariaDB installation, it must be version 5.1.38 or later. |
|
Drupal shared storage |
The shared storage area used by Drupal for uploaded files, static scripts, and other information. |
Apigee |
|
Drush 6.2 |
The Drupal command line interface. |
Apigee |
|
PHP 7.0 |
Server-side scripting engine. |
Apigee |
Shown below is the small topology where the MySQL server resides on a separate machine:
