psychemedia/ergast-f1-api repository overview

⁠ergast Local API Server

Based on the ergast-f1-api⁠, a PHP-based API using the Ergast Formula One MySQL database⁠ developed by Chris Newell.

⁠Instructions for Use Using Docker Compose

• install docker
• download and unzip the contents repository
• cd into the root folder and run: docker-compose up --build -d --remove-orphans
• give everything a minute or to to come up and then test the API at: http://localhost:8000/api/f1/2017.json

⁠Instructions For Configuring API Server Independently

Assumes: Apache with PHP 5

Obtain a MySQL database image from: http://ergast.com/mrd/db/⁠

Restore the database and set the username and password for a user with read-only privileges in f1dbro.inc

Under Apache, ensure that mod_rewrite is available. Enable AllowOverride All to support directory based rewrites, and add a rewrite rule to the .htaccess file in the root directory of the server e.g.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^api/(.*) /php/api/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

This example assumes the API code is installed in /php/api and the desired location of the API is /api