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title: basic-auth

Summary

• Name
• Attributes
• How To Enable
• Test Plugin
• Disable Plugin

Name

basic-auth is an authentication plugin that need to work with consumer. Add Basic Authentication to a service or route.

The consumer then adds its key to the request header to verify its request.

For more information on Basic authentication, refer to Wiki for more information.

Attributes

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
username	string	required			Different consumer should have different value which is unique. When different consumer use a same username, a request matching exception would be raised.
password	string	required			the user's password

How To Enable

1. set a consumer and config the value of the basic-auth option

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/consumers -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "username": "foo",
    "plugins": {
        "basic-auth": {
            "username": "foo",
            "password": "bar"
        }
    }
}'

you can visit Dashboard http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/dashboard/ and add a Consumer through the web console:

then add basic-auth plugin in the Consumer page:

2. add a Route or add a Service, and enable the basic-auth plugin

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {
        "basic-auth": {}
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'

Test Plugin

• missing Authorization header

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...
{"message":"Missing authorization in request"}

• user is not exists:

$ curl -i -ubar:bar http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...
{"message":"Invalid user key in authorization"}

• password is invalid:

$ curl -i -ufoo:foo http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...
{"message":"Password is error"}

• success:

$ curl -i -ufoo:bar http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world

Disable Plugin

When you want to disable the basic-auth plugin, it is very simple, you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration, no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:2379/apisix/admin/routes/1 -X PUT -d value='
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'