Basic authentication from backend

Configure Optimizely Graph to retrieve content from your CMS (PaaS) solution, including restricted content that requires authenticated access. Learn how to set up the ContentGraph addon, configure access rights, and query content using Postman or HTTP clients.

Prerequisites

• Optimizely Content Management System (CMS)
• Optimizely Graph addon (only PaaS)
• Postman or cURL

CMS configuration

Setup (PaaS only)

1. Open your Optimizely CMS solution and install theOptimizely ContentGraph addon.

dotnet add Optimizely.ContentGraph.Cms

2. Update the appsetting.json file. (You should get this information from the Optimizely Support team).

"Optimizely": {
    "ContentGraph": {
      "GatewayAddress": "",
      "AppKey": "",
      "Secret": "",
      "SingleKey": "",
      "AllowSendingLog": "true",
      "ContentVersionSyncMode": "All",
      "SyncReferencingContents": "true",
      "EnablePreviewTokens": "true"
    }
  },

Config

1. Set access rights for contents

2. Run the website and run theOptimizely Graph content synchronization job.
3. Wait until the job finishes. Only after finishing the restricted content can be accessed.

Retrieve restricted content

Postman

1. Import https://cg.optimizely.com/app/swagger/swagger.json to a Postman collection.
2. Set up variables for the collection:
   • baseUrl – https://cg.optimizely.com.
   • appKey – AppKey value (same as above).
   • appSecret – Secret value (same as above).

3. Configure the Authentication method, for simplicity, it should be Basic, and put your appKey as Username and appSecret as Password.

4. Start to query restricted content items with headers: cg-username and cg-roles:

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Note

• cg-username – Optimizely CMS user.
• cg-roles – Optimizely CMS roles to access specific content items.

.HTTP

Make Http calls using the header code given.

POST {{graphDomain}}/content/v2
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Basic {{graphBase64EncodedToken}}
cg-roles: Administrators
{ "query" :"query { ProductPage { total } }" }