Enable Basic Auth for Kong Manager

    You have super admin permissions or a user that has and /rbac read and write access.

    Set up basic authentication

    1. In kong.conf, configure the following properties:

      Kong Manager uses the Sessions plugin in the background. This plugin (configured with admin_gui_session_conf) requires a secret and is configured securely by default.

      • If using HTTP instead of HTTPS, cookie_secure must be manually set to false.
      • If using different domains for the Admin API and Kong Manager, cookie_samesite must be set to . Learn more about these properties in , and see example configurations.

    2. Start or reload Kong and point to the kong.conf file:

        • If you created a super admin via database migration, log in to Kong Manager with the username kong_admin and the password set in the .

        • If you created a super admin via the Kong Manager Teams tab as described in How to Create a Super Admin, log in with the credentials you created after accepting the email invitation.