AWS API Gateway Custom Authorizer lambda is not triggering

Question

I'm trying to implement Basic authentication, using this article as inspiration:

https://medium.com/@Da_vidgf/http-basic-auth-with-api-gateway-and-serverless-5ae14ad0a270

The application sets up as described:

• WWW-Authenticate in the 401 response
• Request Authorizer set up in the Authorizer section
• Tie the authorizer to my endpoint, on the ANY method execution

I can test my custom authorizer using the Test feature under Authorizers successfully but when I call the API using curl (or anything else) there is no authentication. The authorizer lambda doesn't get called and there are no logs in CloudWatch.

Any idea where I could look next?

Answer 1

Remember to deploy API Gateway to apply settings before test.