APItest Installation Instructions

Required Prerequisites for APItest

APItest depends on a few freely available Python packages and utilities to run. The following table provides the list and links for downloading.
Package URL
Python 2.2 or higher http://www.python.org
ElementTree http://www.effbot.org/downloads
Twisted 2.0 http://www.twistedmatrix.com
TwistedWeb http://www.twistedmatrix.com
ZopeInterfaces http://www.zope.org/Products/ZopeInterfaces
Required packages for APItest

Building and Installing

  
$ make install PREFIX=installation path

Uninstallation Instructions

Uninstalling APItest is performed by using the Makefile script with the same PREFIX path as was used during installation.

  
$ make uninstall PREFIX=installation path

Executing APItest

After installation, you should make sure that the installation directory is in your search path. Then you can run:

  
$ apitest httpd

from anywhere and APItest will start up a web-server listening to http://localhost:2112/. A full listing of allowable commands is listed in the APItest userguide, is also available by typing --help into the command line.