Where to add the Laravel Nova Composer Auth API Token?

Based on the Nova guidance I added the API token into the composer.json in my project root but when using the "composer install" it fails to authenticate and asks for my account credentials. Here is my composer.json:

...
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://nova.laravel.com",
            "options":  {
                "http": {
                    "header": [
                        "API-TOKEN: MY-NOVA-API-TOKEN"
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    ],
...

devingray_

5 years ago

Level 8

create a file called auth.json in the root of your project

and add this

{
    "http-basic": {
        "nova.laravel.com": {
            "username": "EMAIL",
            "password": "PASSWORD"
        }
    }
}

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lutkabe

5 years ago

Level 1

@devingray_, I want to use the API token not username/password of my Nova account.

devingray_

5 years ago

Level 8

When running composer update, you will be prompted to provide your login credentials for the Nova website. These credentials will authenticate your Composer session as having permission to download the Nova source code. To avoid manually typing these credentials, you may create a Composer auth.json file while optionally using your API token in place of your password.

This is an excerpt from the docs. Use your API token in place of password

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