How to allow Cross domain request in apache2

Question

This is my configuration file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName localhost:80
    DocumentRoot /var/www/XXX
    <Directory />
        Options None
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/qvbn-app-web-ctrl>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

When i am trying to reload apache2 iT is giving error as :

   Invalid command 'Header', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
    Action 'configtest' failed.

I don't know how to enable CORS. I followed this: http://enable-cors.org/server_apache.html

Answer 1

OS=GNU/Linux Debian
Httpd=Apache/2.4.10

Change in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory /var/www/html>
     Order Allow,Deny
     Allow from all
     AllowOverride all
     Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</Directory>

Add/activate module

 a2enmod headers 

Restart service

/etc/init.t/apache2 restart

Answer 2

I had a lot of trouble getting this to work. Dummy me, don't forget that old page - even for sub-requests - gets cached in your browser. Maybe obvious, but clear your browsers cache. After that, one can also use Header set Cache-Control "no-store" This was helpful to me while testing.

Answer 3

First enable mod_headers on your server, then you can use header directive in both Apache conf and .htaccess.

1) enable mod headers

a2enmod headers

2) configure header in .htaccess file

Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

 Header add Access-Control-Allow-Headers "origin, x-requested-with, content-type"

 Header add Access-Control-Allow-Methods "PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS"

Answer 4

Enable mod_headers in Apache2 to be able to use Header directive :

a2enmod headers

Answer 5

put the following in the site's .htaccess file (in the /var/www/XXX):

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

instead of the .conf file.

You'll also want to use

AllowOverride All

in your .conf file for the domain so Apache looks at it.

Answer 6

You can also put below code to the httaccess file as well to allow CORS using htaccess file

######################## Handling Options for the CORS
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} OPTIONS
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L,R=204]

##################### Add custom headers Header set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" Header set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" # Always set these headers for CORS. Header always set Access-Control-Max-Age 1728000 Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: "*" Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Methods: "GET,POST,OPTIONS,DELETE,PUT" Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Headers: "DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,C$ Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true

For information purpose, You can also have a look at this article http://www.ipragmatech.com/enable-cors-using-htaccess/ which allow CORS header.