HTTP Basic Auth for Your Index

The username and password of your index

Every request to your Opensolr Index must send a username and a password (HTTP Basic Authentication). Your index always has them, from the moment it is created, so nobody reads or changes your data without them.

What a new index starts with

• Username: opensolr
• Password: your master API key. You see it on your account dashboard, as Master REST API Key, and under Account › API Keys.

Generating a new API key later does not change the password of the indexes you already have.

Change them

1. Open the index in the Control Panel and click Security.
2. Under Authentication, type the new Username and Password.
3. Click Save.

The new credentials work in about 10 seconds. Then update every app, plugin and script that connects to this index.

• Use letters and digits only: any other character is removed when you save.
• The form does not show your credentials again later, so keep them somewhere safe.

Where the same credentials are used

• Every search and every update your apps send to the index.
• Downloading the backup files of the index.
• The password of the hosted search page, when you switch it on.

By API

The same change, from your own code: update_http_auth. The credentials of a new index, in more detail: Default HTTP Auth Credentials.