Failed authorisation, but headers are

  • I get this message in the plug-in setting page:

    Authorization has Failed

The authorization header was not returned on this test, which means that your server may be stripping the Authorization header. This is needed for IndieAuth to work correctly.

If you are on Apache, try adding this line to your .htaccess file:

SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

If that doesnt work, try this:

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

If that does not work either, you may need to ask your hosting provider to reconfigure to allow the Authorization header to be passed. If they refuse, you can pass it through Apache with an alternate name. The plugin searches for the header in REDIRECT_HTTP_AUTHORIZATION, as some FastCGI implementations store the header in this location.

    I’m sure you’ve seen that before. So I contacted Pressable, my managed web host and got this answers.

    “Based on our documents, we do pass Authorization headers.

    “It will be best to check with the plugin’s developer/support team to shed light on what’s causing the issue. If they can provide more information of what needs to be checked/done from our end, we can check on this further.”

    So any help here would be good.

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