Sorry, you are not allowed to create posts as this user - Auth issue

My “app”:

#!/bin/env node
var WPAPI = require('wpapi');
var myusername = 'xxx';
var mypassword = 'xxx';

//var wp = new WPAPI({ endpoint: 'http://site.org:8080/wp-json', username:myusername, password:mypassword });
//
var api = WPAPI.discover( 'http://site.org:8080' ).then(function( site ) {
    return site.auth({
        username: myusername,
        password: mypassword
    });
});
api.then(function (wp) {

wp.posts().create({
    title: 'Your Post Title',
    content: 'Your post content',
    status: 'publish'
}).then(function( response ) {
    console.log( response.id );
}).catch (function(e) {
        console.log(e);
});
});

Gives me:

{ code: 'rest_cannot_create',
  message: 'Sorry, you are not allowed to create posts as this user.',
  data: { status: 401 } }

[AnnieAnitha]

I was also having the same issue even after installing and activating the Basic Auth Plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-basic-auth/#installation. It worked after installing it from https://github.com/WP-API/Basic-Auth

[kadamwhite]

There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with your code; are you sure you have the Basic Authentication plugin installed & activated? Only cookie authentication is enabled by default, other authentication schemes require a specific plugin to be installed.

If you’ve already got that running and you still encounter this issue write back here and I’ll do what I can to help troubleshoot.