Can't authenticate for REST testing - yii2

Question

I have the following virtual host name setup on xampp: reporting.dev
public function userIsAuthenticated(\ApiTester $I)
{
$I->amGoingTo('Check Authentication works');
// i've tried both of these ways to authenticate
$I->amHttpAuthenticated('my_email', 'my_password');
$I->haveHttpHeader('Authorization', 'Basic super_long_token');
$I->sendGET(Url::toRoute('/api/reports', true));
$I->seeResponseCodeIs(\Codeception\Util\HttpCode::OK); // 200
$I->deleteHeader('Authorization');
}
The following request works in postman http://reporting.dev/api/reports using a Basic Auth header and the same token in the test above.
This is my api suite config:
class_name: ApiTester
modules:
enabled:
- REST:
depends: PhpBrowser
#url: /api/
part: Json
- Yii2:
part: [orm, fixtures]
configFile: 'config/web.php'
I'm using Yii2, if I remove the behaviors function from my api controller that determines the authentication as Basic Auth, I then do get a 200 response and the expected json.
public function behaviors()
{
$behaviors = parent::behaviors();
$behaviors['authenticator'] = [
'class' => HttpBasicAuth::className(),
'except' => [],
];
return $behaviors;
}
So I'm unsure what else I can do here or why I'm not authenticated

Answer 1

The problem I had here was the auth token I have in my DB was not base64 encoded.
public function userIsAuthenticated(\ApiTester $I)
{
$I->amGoingTo('Check Authentication works');
// fixed now
$I->haveHttpHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' . base64_encode('Basic super_long_db_auth_token'));
$I->sendGET(Url::toRoute('/api/reports', true));
$I->seeResponseCodeIs(\Codeception\Util\HttpCode::OK); // 200
$I->deleteHeader('Authorization');
}