# Exercise 2: Delete a published API

## Requirements

1. API is enabled and published.
2. API gateway is selected and enabled.

## Solution

To delete a published API, proceed as follows.\
Step 1: Delete the API gateway(s) using the API.\
Step 2: Delete the API.

### Step 1: Delete the API gateway(s) that is using the API

The API gateway using the API must be deleted first.

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Note: When an API is set with more than one API gateway, all API gateways must be disabled first, and then the API is deleted.
{% endhint %}

To go to the API gateway, follow any of the options:

* Select “API gateway” under “APIs and integration” on the left side panel and open the required API.

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* OR Open the API gateway by clicking the \[Go to API gateway] button in the API under the Details tab. It displays the API gateway.

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3\. OR go to the Usage tab on the API page and click on the API gateway. It displays the API gateway in Used by.

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* To begin deleting the API gateway, click the Delete API gateway icon on the API gateway page.

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* To confirm the deletion for the API gateway, a dialog box will pop up asking for confirmation by entering the API gateway name.\
  Enter the name of the API gateway. The \[Delete] button gets activated.
* To delete the API gateway, click the \[Delete] button. The message for successful deletion displays.

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### Step 2: Delete the API

When the API gateway using the API is deleted, delete the API as follows.

* Disable the API. An enabled API cannot be deleted.

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* Click the Delete API icon to delete the API.

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* To confirm the deletion for the API, a dialog box will pop up asking for confirmation.\
  Enter the name of the API. The \[Delete] button gets activated.

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* To delete the API, click the \[Delete] button. The message for successful deletion displays.


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