CORS errors prevent running locally

[stdunbar]

When running against an against a local server, CORS error prevent the application from doing anything.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Checkout fineract 1.4.0 or develop branch from github.com/apache/fineract
2. docker run --name mysql-5.5 -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mysql -d mysql:5.5
3. ./gradlew createDB -PdbName=fineract_tenants
4. ./gradlew createDB -PdbName=fineract_default
5. ./gradlew tomcatRunWAR
6. Note that output is The Server is running at http://localhost:8080/fineract-provider
7. Check out community-app, develop branch
8. bower install
9. npm install
10. gem install bundler
11. bundle install
12. grunt serve
13. Open browser, go to http://localhost:9002/?baseApiUrl=http://localhost:8080#/
14. Login with user mifos, password password

Expected Behaviour

Login should work

Actual Behaviour

Login fails because of CORS error:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://localhost:8080/fineract-provider/api/v1/authentication. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

Note that there is a CORS error and the protocol is ignored.

Settings

• Mifos X version: fineract 1.4.0 branch or develop branch
• Browser used: Firefox 74.0
• OS: Ubuntu

Screenshots

[ravitejasrt]

Hi am also faacing same error can you help me

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://demo.openmf.org/fineract-provider/api/v1/authentication' from origin 'http://localhost:9002' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: Redirect is not allowed for a preflight request.

[saifromeo]

I am also facing similar issues, I checked out 18.x version community app, fineract 1.4 resulting in same error

[Argez]

Has anyone been able to solve this? I am also having the same error