Site Health Change: Authorisation Header is Invalid

  • Hi,

    Since upgrading to 5.6, I am seeing the site health change saying the “Authorisation Header is invalid” on my wordpress websites. Strangely enough, this error does not appear when I login to the website using Google Chrome where I see the site health saying that the “Authorisation Header is working as expected”.

    However, I get this error when I login to the website using Safari or using Chrome mobile. Please could you help me with understanding this.

    Thanks.

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  • Howdy @zinam I tested this and after logging in with Safari on a default install the Site Health section reports: The Authorization header is working as expected.

    This check appears to be rather new. Could you try to see if any of the plugins is causing the error by disabling them all and then re-enabling them one by one?

    Also, there is some “Why is Authentication not working?” help available.

    Thread Starter zinam

    (@zinam)

    hi Andrei,

    I have disabled all my plugins, but this error still comes up saying the “Authorization header is invalid”, so it’s definitely not a plugin issue. I even followed the article by adding the rules to the .htaccess file, and this still doesn’t solve the issue.

    What I am confused about is why it works on some browser sessions and on some browser sessions the error appears.
    My wordpress login page has a username and password on it so that the user has to enter two sets of passwords (the first to access the login page, the second are the wordpress credentials for the wordpress dashboard). Is this anyway related to this?

    MV

    (@mvenkadesan)

    I have the same issue as @zinam . I also tried this with a brand new install and added password authentication to access the login page (same at @zinam ). I get a message that the “authorization header is invalid.”

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by MV.

    I am having the same issue. Can’t seem to get the error to go away.

    MV

    (@mvenkadesan)

    It has been 6 months since the original post and a new WordPress version has also appeared. Still, the issue persists. Does anyone know how to resolve the warning in Site Health?

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