CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing

This happens generally when you try access another domain’s resources.

This is a security feature for avoiding everyone freely accessing any resources of that domain (which can be accessed for example to have an exact same copy of your website on a pirate domain).

The header of the response, even if it’s 200OK do not allow other origins (domains, port) to access the ressources.

You can fix this problem if you are the owner of both domains:

Solution 1: via .htaccess

To change that, you can write this in the .htaccess of the requested domain file:

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
    </IfModule>

If you only want to give access to one domain, the .htaccess should look like this:

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin 'https://my-domain.tdl'
    </IfModule>

Solution 2: set headers the correct way

If you set this into the response header of the requested file, you will allow everyone to access the ressources:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin : *

OR

Access-Control-Allow-Origin : http://www.my-domain.com

Peace and code 😉

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