# Need help to setup basic HTTP authentication
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 29, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259 "2012-06-29T11:10:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@aps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aps)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/1 "2012-06-29T11:10:11Z")
I m new in Elasticsearch, I want to implement Besic HTTP Authentication, I
have downloaded the plugin but not able to implement. The readme files
doesn't state how to implement it. Any help will be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@aps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aps)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/2 "2012-06-29T15:03:38Z")
On Friday, 29 June 2012 13:10:11 UTC+2, aps wrote:
> I m new in Elasticsearch, I want to implement Besic HTTP Authentication, I
> have downloaded the plugin but not able to implement. The readme files
> doesn't state how to implement it. Any help will be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@aps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aps)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/3 "2012-06-29T15:04:18Z")
I tried the read me file instruction... but it is not exactly guiding me to
setup HTTP plugin.
On Friday, 29 June 2012 13:10:11 UTC+2, aps wrote:
> I m new in Elasticsearch, I want to implement Besic HTTP Authentication, I
> have downloaded the plugin but not able to implement. The readme files
> doesn't state how to implement it. Any help will be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Dunn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Dunn)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/4 "2012-06-30T12:17:49Z")
I've found the easiest way is to use Apache as a reverse proxy, implement basic auth there. That's because I'm more familiar with Apache than anything else (Java, ES plugins etc).
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### Author:  [@swendel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swendel)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/5 "2012-06-30T12:32:28Z")
If anyone is using chef, i wrote a cookbook what has jetty http basic-auth
implementation.
[https://github.com/sebwendel/chef-elasticsearch.git](https://github.com/sebwendel/chef-elasticsearch.git) use the "0.1.0" branch.
please have a try, feedback is more than be welcome.
If you have trouble just let me know, i would like to help.
2012/6/30 Nick Dunn [nick@nick-dunn.co.uk](mailto:nick@nick-dunn.co.uk)
> I've found the easiest way is to use Apache as a reverse proxy, implement
> basic auth there. That's because I'm more familiar with Apache than
> anything else (Java, ES plugins etc).
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### Author:  [@jagdeep](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagdeep)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/6 "2012-06-30T14:45:25Z")
You can use this [GitHub - Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic: HTTP Basic Authentication for Elasticsearch (Discontinued)](https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic)
[GitHub - sonian/elasticsearch-jetty](https://github.com/sonian/elasticsearch-jetty)
On Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:47:49 PM UTC+5:30, Nick Dunn wrote:
> I've found the easiest way is to use Apache as a reverse proxy, implement
> basic auth there. That's because I'm more familiar with Apache than
> anything else (Java, ES plugins etc).
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### Author:  [@Radu\_Gheorghe1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Radu_Gheorghe1)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/7 "2012-07-02T06:10:37Z")
On Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:45:25 PM UTC+3, jagdeep wrote:
> You can use this [GitHub - Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic: HTTP Basic Authentication for Elasticsearch (Discontinued)](https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic)
Yep, it's quite easy:
- download it from here:
[https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic/downloads](https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic/downloads)
- then, from your Elasticsearch home directory (/usr/share/elasticsearch if
you installed from the .deb package):
# mkdir -p plugins/http-basic
# cp elasticsearch-http-basic-1.0.3.jar plugins/http-basic/
Then you need to add the following to your config, before restarting
Elasticsearch:
http.basic.enabled: true
http.basic.user: "myuser"
http.basic.password: "mypass"
> [GitHub - sonian/elasticsearch-jetty](https://github.com/sonian/elasticsearch-jetty)
>
> On Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:47:49 PM UTC+5:30, Nick Dunn wrote:
>
> > I've found the easiest way is to use Apache as a reverse proxy, implement
> > basic auth there. That's because I'm more familiar with Apache than
> > anything else (Java, ES plugins etc).
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### Author:  [@aps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aps)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/8 "2012-07-02T12:01:14Z")
Thanks all... I will try it and post comment...
On Friday, 29 June 2012 13:10:11 UTC+2, aps wrote:
> I m new in Elasticsearch, I want to implement Besic HTTP Authentication, I
> have downloaded the plugin but not able to implement. The readme files
> doesn't state how to implement it. Any help will be appreciated.
---
### Author:  [@aps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aps)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/9 "2012-07-02T12:49:30Z")
I have done the settings.. how do you access it through URL... when I hit
"user myuser:mypass localhost:9200/sa/emp/1" it says bad URL
any clue?
On Monday, 2 July 2012 08:10:37 UTC+2, Radu Gheorghe wrote:
> On Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:45:25 PM UTC+3, jagdeep wrote:
>
> > You can use this [GitHub - Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic: HTTP Basic Authentication for Elasticsearch (Discontinued)](https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic)
>
> Yep, it's quite easy:
>
> - download it from here:
> [https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic/downloads](https://github.com/Asquera/elasticsearch-http-basic/downloads)
>
> - then, from your Elasticsearch home directory (/usr/share/elasticsearch
> if you installed from the .deb package):
>
> # mkdir -p plugins/http-basic
>
> # cp elasticsearch-http-basic-1.0.3.jar plugins/http-basic/
>
> Then you need to add the following to your config, before restarting
> Elasticsearch:
>
> http.basic.enabled: true
> http.basic.user: "myuser"
> http.basic.password: "mypass"
>
> > [GitHub - sonian/elasticsearch-jetty](https://github.com/sonian/elasticsearch-jetty)
> >
> > On Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:47:49 PM UTC+5:30, Nick Dunn wrote:
> >
> > > I've found the easiest way is to use Apache as a reverse proxy,
> > > implement basic auth there. That's because I'm more familiar with Apache
> > > than anything else (Java, ES plugins etc).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-setup-basic-http-authentication/8259/10 "2017-07-06T03:21:47Z")