Version: 2.3.0

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:

auth-1

then add basic-auth plugin in the Consumer page:

auth-2

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
        }
    }
}'