neo4j produces “No authorization header supplied”

Question

I'm trying to access neo4j running on an aws ec2 instance from the command line where I get authorisation errors. I've enabled org.neo4j.server.webserver.address=0.0.0.0 and get a 503 error on the first statement and the same errors for the rest using the ec2 host name.

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-192:/etc/neo4j$ curl http://localhost:7474/
{
  "management" : "http://localhost:7474/db/manage/",
  "data" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/"
}ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-192:/etc/neo4j$ curl http://localhost:7474/db/data/
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "message" : "No authorization header supplied.",
    "code" : "Neo.ClientError.Security.AuthorizationFailed"
  } ]
}ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-192:/etc/neo4j$ curl http://localhost:7474/user/neo4j/
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "message" : "No authorization header supplied.",
    "code" : "Neo.ClientError.Security.AuthorizationFailed"
  } ]
ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-192:/etc/neo4j$ curl http://localhost:7474/user/neo4j/password
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "message" : "No authorization header supplied.",
    "code" : "Neo.ClientError.Security.AuthorizationFailed"
  } ]

Am I logging in correctly or have I missed a step somewhere?

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to provide authorization header in your request

Authorization: Basic bmVvNGo6bmVvNGo=

curl --header "Authorization: Basic bmVvNGo6bmVvNGo=" http://localhost:7474

bmVvNGo6bmVvNGo= is default Neo4j password: neo4j

by @michael-hunger

note: For the auth APIs you still need authorization.

curl -u neo4j:password http://localhost:7474

Or turn off authorization in Neo4j configuration

conf/neo4j-server.properties

# Disable authorization 
dbms.security.auth_enabled=false

Here is more information about that

http://neo4j.com/docs/stable/rest-api-security.html