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Published Sep. 10, 2025

I want to disable Basic Auth for JSONWS

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Dia Seung

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Issue

  • I want to disable Basic Auth for JSONWS (JSON web services) in Liferay so that only OAuth is used for a specific jsonws method (i.e. expandovalue)

Environment

  • DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • Basic Auth can be entirely disabled, or /api/* removed from the URLs Includes list, by navigating to Control Panel > System Settings > API Authentication > Basic Auth Header and editing the /api/*,/xmlrpc* Configuration Entry.
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  • To disable Basic Auth only for certain expandovalue methods, add /api/jsonws/expandovalue/* to "URL Excludes".  

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