CORS issue prevents UI from working locally

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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. Check out web-app, master branch
7. npm install
8. ng serve
9. Open browser, go to http://localhost:4200/
10. 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 http://localhost:8080/fineract-provider/api/v1/authentication?username=mifos&password=password. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).

Settings

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

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