# Accessing data from php file protected by shield

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [April 26, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386 "2016-04-26T06:38:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Chaudhary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Abhishek\_Chaudhary](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Chaudhary)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386/1 "2016-04-26T06:38:52Z")

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I have authenticate shield with admin with some password. Now i am unable to search any term in my php file. Earlier it does search using elasticsearch api. Now its display nothing.

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**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386/2 "2016-04-26T10:14:12Z")

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In your PHP code are you using the elasticsearch-php client? If so did you configure it to use authentication? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/php-api/2.0/\_security.html#\_http\_authentication](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/php-api/2.0/_security.html#_http_authentication)

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Chaudhary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Abhishek\_Chaudhary](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Chaudhary)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386/3 "2016-04-26T10:49:20Z")

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## I am not using client. plz look at this code and where to give authentication ?

$term = $\_GET['search'];  
$search\_host = '127.0.0.1';  
$search\_port = '9200';  
$index = 'people';  
$doc\_type = 'details';  
$method = "GET";

$queryData = array('q' =\> $term) ;  
$url =  
' http://'.$search\_host.':'.$search\_port.'/'.$index.'/'.$doc\_type.'/\_search?'.http\_build\_query($queryData);  
$ch = curl\_init();  
curl\_setopt($ch, CURLOPT\_URL, $url);  
curl\_setopt($ch, CURLOPT\_PORT, 9200);  
curl\_setopt($ch, CURLOPT\_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
curl\_setopt($ch, CURLOPT\_CUSTOMREQUEST, strtoupper($method));  
$result = curl\_exec($ch);  
curl\_close($ch);  
$ary = json\_decode($result,true);

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**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386/4 "2016-04-26T11:05:24Z")

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I am not a PHP developer, so I just did a brief search on how to set authentication and found:

```
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);  

```

Source: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2140419/how-do-i-make-a-request-using-http-basic-authentication-with-php-curl](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2140419/how-do-i-make-a-request-using-http-basic-authentication-with-php-curl)

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Chaudhary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Abhishek\_Chaudhary](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Chaudhary)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386/5 "2016-04-26T11:07:44Z")

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ya it works.  
thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-data-from-php-file-protected-by-shield/48386/6 "2017-07-06T13:45:07Z")

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