# Tutorial: Creating a REST SmartApp Endpoint

**URL:** <https://community.smartthings.com/t/tutorial-creating-a-rest-smartapp-endpoint/4331>\
**Category:** Writing SmartApps\
**Created:** [August 20, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/tutorial-creating-a-rest-smartapp-endpoint/4331 "2014-08-20T02:25:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/tutorial-creating-a-rest-smartapp-endpoint/4331/5 "2014-12-30T21:03:13Z")

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Is it necessary to set up the PHP site? What I want are some URLs to use to control lights or devices from Tasker. Isn’t the PHP code just doing that in this example?

I have installed ActiON4 that even runs the web-pages in Groovy, and it seems to work pretty well.

> **[625alex/ActiON-Dashboard](https://github.com/625alex/ActiON-Dashboard)**
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> ActiON-Dashboard - temporary repository for legacy installations.

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