Configure REST API

Enable REST API

• /msg <bot> config bot rest-api on
• /msg <bot> reloadmodule rest_api

Configure HTTPd

Either set up a reverse proxy (with persisted Host header) with your favourite HTTPd or follow the instructions below.

Nginx

• Copy example config file from /docs/rest_api/nginx to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
• Edit server-name, ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key
• $ service nginx restart as root

Apache2

• Run $ a2enmod ssl proxy proxy_http as root
• Copy example config file from /docs/rest_api/apache2 to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
• Edit ServerName, SSLCertificateFile andSSLCertificateKeyFile`
• $ service apache2 restart as root

Lighttpd

• Copy example config file from /docs/rest_api/lighttpd to /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
• Edit ssl.ca-file, ssl.pemfile and ssl.privkey
• $ service lighttpd restart as root