By zipvoila
Hi, I have setup my nextjs app on digital oceans app platform.Everything is working fine but i’m getting cors erros even though I have whitelisted them with ENV variables. For example, in my server file
// CORS
const corsOptions = {
origin(origin, callback) {
if (!origin || process.env.WHITELIST.split(',').indexOf(origin) !== -1) {
callback(null, true)
}else {
callback(new Error('Not allowed by CORS'))
}
}
}
console.log(`CORS ALLOWED: ${process.env.WHITELIST}`)
server.use(cors(corsOptions));
And in my env files(also set from digital ocean platform) WHITELIST=http://localhost:3030,https://someUniqidentifier.ondigitalocean.app
Is there something i’m missing? The console.log is showing the correct whitelisted urls.
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Hi! Looking at the CORS middleware documentation, it looks like the origin function is meant to return a list of allowed origins. Since you have that ready through the environment variable, you should be able to pass them directly like so:
// CORS
const corsOptions = {
origin: process.env.WHITELIST ? process.env.WHITELIST.split(',') : [],
}
console.log(`CORS ALLOWED: ${process.env.WHITELIST}`)
server.use(cors(corsOptions));
If the environment variable is not set, this will disallow all origins. You can replace the [] default value at the end of the line with '*' to allow all origins instead.
Does that work?
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