Step 2: Create an API proxy

This pageapplies toApigee andApigee hybrid.

View Apigee Edge documentation.

Next, create an API proxy.

  1. Position your cursor over theapiproxies folder in your workspace and clickCreate API proxy icon.

    + displays when you position the cursor over apiproxies folder

    TheCreate API proxy wizard opens.

    First page of the Create proxy wizard

  2. ClickAPI key based authentication.

  3. Enter the following values for the next set of prompts. PressEnter after each to confirm and proceed.

    FieldValueDescription
    API proxy namehelloworldName used to identify the API proxy.
    API proxy base pathhelloworldPart of the URL used to make requests to your API. Apigee uses the URL to match and route incoming requests to the proper API proxy.
    Backend target URLhttps://mocktarget.apigee.netTarget URL that Apigee invokes on a request to the API proxy. Themocktarget service is hosted at Apigee and returns simple data.

    The API proxy is created.

  4. Expand thehelloworld folder to view the contents of the API proxy bundle.

    Shows the folder structure of a reverse proxy in the Apigee section.

    Default API proxy and target endpoints, and a set of policies to manage API key based authentication, are added to the API proxy configuration based on your selections using the wizard.

In the next step, you configure and deploy an environment that includes yourhelloworld API proxy.

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Last updated 2025-12-15 UTC.