Usage/Authentication: Edit/Delete/Post New about wp-api

[Boyquotes]

Hi,

Same problem here...but no solution

Nicolas

[rmccue]

Using Basic authentication (--user user:pass) should work, at least until #37 is completed.

Could this be related to #8? Are you running PHP in CGI mode?

[Boyquotes]

Thanks for your reply.

• Completely #8, if I test in a php file on the root, the server variables $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] are correct, but these variables are empty in WP-API/lib/class-wp-json-posts.php file.
• Yes I use CGI/FastCGI on my server, this is the problem?

In #37, I don't understand:
"Basic authentication can be removed and/or moved to a separate plugin to help development"
Removed or moved? and where is this plugin if moved.
We must not use Basic authentification, only Oauth, that it?

Otherwise : in official documentation ( https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API/blob/master/docs/guides/getting-started.md)
In my bash command line, curl have not --data-binary option also -d or --data and use like this:
curl -d "@updated-post.json"

Have a nice day.

[landwire]

Yes,
I do have CGI support switched on. No idea what it is or if I should turn it off. Any advice with regards to this would be helpful. Though I run PHP support as the Apache Module. Does that make sense?

Copy and paste from my setup:

1. PHP support (Run PHP as APACHE , PHP version 5.4.21 )
   Note that switching the PHP handler type may break functionality of existing PHP scripts on this website.
   Learn how to choose the most suitable PHP settings
2. CGI support (cgi-bin directory is located in the root directory of webspace ) is enabled
   S

[Boyquotes]

I have installed this plugin:
WP BASIC Auth

And the basic auth is not dropped now and curl command work fine ;)

Why this information isn't in documentation?

Thanks.

[landwire]

Hello Boyquotes,
ok, my curl works now! Thank you for that hint with the plugin! Now I only would like to it working with the JS code. Basically how can I write this:
curl --data '{"title": "Hello Updated World!"}'
-H "Content-Type: application/javascript"
--user username:password
http://apitest.landwire.net/wordpress/wp-json.php/posts/1

Instead in Javascript? I tried the code above in my initial question, but I must be doing something wrong I assume. Maybe some syntax? Any help is highly appreciated!

[rmccue]

Closing as duplicate of #8.

Not sure what else we can do here, but thanks for the heads up that there's a plugin that fixes this for you. We'll look into implementing their workaround into WP-API :)

[fransiskapw]

hi, i still get 400 bad request using AJAX. I already installed WP Basic Auth. Any suggestion? Thanks