# API: enrol user in a course
**URL:** https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 17, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840 "2022-07-17T21:48:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@mslyon](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mslyon)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/1 "2022-07-17T21:48:37Z")
I spent a considerable amount of time trying to use an API that would enrol a user in a course.
To start with I checked this link [Enrollment API Enrollment Resource — Open edX Platform APIs 0.1 documentation](https://docs.huihoo.com/edx/open-edx-platform-api/enrollment/enrollment.html#view-and-add-to-a-users-course-enrollments) and it seems it is possible to view list of courses only for the authenticated user but NOT for another user - am I wrong?
Also, for many API endpoints I get {
“detail”: “Authentication credentials were not provided.”
}
although I followed all the steps to get all working properly - see the image…
Am I doing something wronglY/
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### Author:  [@Zia\_Fazal](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Zia_Fazal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/2 "2022-07-19T09:39:32Z")
Hi @mslyon
This [thread](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/authentication-credentials-were-not-provided/6519/2) might help you in resolving authentication issue.
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### Author:  [@mslyon](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mslyon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/3 "2022-07-19T09:57:19Z")
thanks. Yes I have seent it also before but I’m not sure what exactly is API\_KEY?
Is it the private key?
HTTP\_X\_EDX\_API\_KEY: PUT\_YOUR\_API\_KEY\_HERE
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### Author:  [@Zia\_Fazal](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Zia_Fazal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/4 "2022-07-19T10:01:34Z")
`EDX_API_KEY` can a be string key should be something like a pass phrase. Check what you have set in settings of your LMS or set it if not set. Then send same value in `HTTP-X-EDX-API-KEY` header when calling API.
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### Author:  [@mslyon](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mslyon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/5 "2022-07-19T10:36:42Z")
thanks a lot but I’m still struggling…
this is what I did:
and this
but it still says
{
“detail”: “Authentication credentials were not provided.”
}
I tried also with curl but same…
any idea? what am I doing wrongly?
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### Author:  [@mslyon](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mslyon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/6 "2022-07-19T10:45:28Z")
finally I found…posting here the way I managed to make it work…
curl [https://example.com/api/enrollment/v1/enrollment?user=USERNAME](https://example.com/api/enrollment/v1/enrollment?user=USERNAME) -H “X-EDX-API-KEY: key\_goes here”
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### Author:  [@mslyon](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mslyon)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/7 "2022-07-19T14:48:17Z")
However, when I do the same with API bulk\_enroll this does not work anymore
curl -d “[auto\_enroll=true&email\_students=true&action=enroll&courses=course-v1:xxxx&identifiers=example@gmail.com](mailto:auto_enroll=true&email_students=true&action=enroll&courses=course-v1:xxxx&identifiers=example@gmail.com)” -X POST [https://example.com/api/bulk\_enroll/v1/bulk\_enroll](https://example.com/api/bulk_enroll/v1/bulk_enroll) -H “X-EDX-API-KEY: cxxxx”
I get {“detail”:“Authentication credentials were not provided.”}
Any idea whis is so?
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### Author:  [@mslyon](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mslyon)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/api-enrol-user-in-a-course/7840/8 "2022-07-29T10:11:46Z")
I have finally figured out what the problem was…
it is related to bitnami edx configuration of apache 2 - by adding this
WSGIPassAuthorization On
to the end of the httpd.conf, it solved the issue of authorization…