# '/admin/users/{id}/log\_out.json' is not working
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185 "2022-03-17T03:19:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@bymong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bymong)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/1 "2022-03-17T03:19:33Z")
> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#operation/logOutUser)**
I trying to make a sample code for LogOut
My site dns is ‘[aaa.com](http://aaa.com)’, and User ID is ‘1’.
I made url and send request like this.
-post [AAA Sorry Page](https://aaa.com/admin/users/1/log_out.json)
Also, I send header with api-key, api-Username.
But I recived response to “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.”
I trying to ‘CURL’, like this.
But I got same result. (Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private~~~ )
curl -X POST " [AAA Sorry Page](http://aaa.com/admin/users/1/log_out.json) "
-H “Content-Type: multipart/form-data;”
-H “Api-Key: secretStringTemp”
-H “Api-Username: system”
-F “id=1” \
Could you help me what am I wrong
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### Author:  [@seanc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanc)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/2 "2023-04-17T14:22:16Z")
Hey,
Same issue here. Did you get anywhere with this?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/3 "2023-04-17T14:37:37Z")
I’m still able to log out users via the api. Here is the curl command I used:
```plaintext
curl -i -sS -X POST "http://localhost:4200/admin/users/1/log_out.json" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Api-Key: 64b901d2357526d1b6e8c439fd0570f9c585073e6160ae18cc82b7ac358d4893" \
-H "Api-Username: blake.erickson"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{"success":"OK"}
```
If you are still having issues, can you share more info about your api request with us?
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### Author:  [@seanc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanc)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/4 "2023-04-17T14:15:16Z")
I’m stumped!
I can’t log a user out using the API endpoint `/admin/users/{USER_ID}/log_out.json`
I’m successfully retrieving the discourse `USER_ID` with the following: `/u/by-external/${user.id}.json`.
I’m also retrieving data by hitting other API endpoints so I’m happy with the API key and the mechanics around my request.
But when trying to send a post request…
```js
await axios.post(`${process.env.FORUM_URL}/admin/users/${UserID}/log_out.json`,{
headers: {
'Api-Key': process.env.DISCOURSE_API_KEY,
'Api-Username': process.env.DISCOURSE_API_USERNAME,
},
});
```
…I get a status 404 with the following return object:
```js
{
errors: ['The requested URL or resource could not be found.'],
error_type: 'not_found'
}
```
I managed to implement SSO without too much trouble. Any insight on why the logout might not be working would be great.
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/5 "2023-04-17T14:22:57Z")
This looks okay to me at first glance 🤔 . Does `UserID` hold a proper value?
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### Author:  [@seanc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanc)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/6 "2023-04-17T14:37:51Z")
Yes, in the test case it’s 1 (obtained from a call to `/u/by-external/${user.id}.json` ). Also tried hard-coding the value, just to double check…same result.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/8 "2023-04-17T14:55:25Z")
I’ve slipped over the posts from the other topic here to keep the discussion grouped together. 👍
Sorry if it’s a little out of sync. 🙂
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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/9 "2023-04-17T15:03:24Z")
One way I can replicate the 404 error message is to use an invalid user-id. Can you verify you can fetch the user by id first?
```plaintext
curl -i -sSL -X GET "http://localhost:4200/admin/users/1.json" \
-H "Api-Key: 64b901d2357526d1b6e8c439fd0570f9c585073e6160ae18cc82b7ac358d4893" \
-H "Api-Username: blake.erickson"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
"id": 1,
"username": "blake.erickson",
...
```
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### Author:  [@seanc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanc)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/10 "2023-04-17T15:29:12Z")
Ok, so I’ve confirmed I am retrieving a valid user\_id from Discourse, 1 in this case…
```plaintext
{
"id":1,
"username":"Sean",
...
}
```
Interestingly, when I send a cURL request to the `log_out` endpoint for user id 1…
```plaintext
curl -i -sS -X POST https://community.site.com/admin/users/1/log_out.json
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
-H "Api-Key: my-api-key"
-H "Api-Username: Sean"
```
…I get a 200 response, suggesting that the user 1 (me) should be logged out of the forum, but when I check, I haven’t actually been logged out - that’s issue one.
Second problem is that sending the same request from my app backend using axios (detailed above) results in a 404…very strange.
**Edit:**
_Issue one is not an issue - the cURL request is successfully logging me out - just need to work out now why the axios post request is giving me 404._
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### Author:  [@seanc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanc)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/11 "2023-04-17T16:01:05Z")
Ok - mystery solved 🙄
Turns out my axios request wasn’t formatted correctly! Since I’m not sending any body in the post request, I should have passed an empty object with the request.
Thanks for the steer re. curl requests @blake - that’s ultimately what unlocked it for me. 👍
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### Author:  [@Siddharth\_Pradhan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Siddharth_Pradhan)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/12 "2023-05-18T09:09:48Z")
Hi Sean,
Can you please share the log\_out.json code since I am working on a similar request
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### Author:  [@Atchuth\_Reddy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Atchuth_Reddy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/14 "2023-09-06T09:40:48Z")
I have tried logging out forum with post api ‘admin/users/{user\_id}/log\_out.json’ but it returns with Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
I have provided api\_key and api-username with in headers. Does anyone faced same issue
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/15 "2023-09-06T09:56:35Z")
Would you need to use an admin API key for that endpoint?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/16 "2023-09-06T10:34:50Z")
I successfully logged myself out using the API by sending a POST request to `/admin/users/1/log_out.json`.
Empty body, headers containing an admin Api-Username and an Api-Key with either global scope or granular scope with log-out capability checked.
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### Author:  [@Atchuth\_Reddy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Atchuth_Reddy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/17 "2023-09-06T12:44:39Z")
Yes, I have used admin API Key
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-id-log-out-json-is-not-working/221185/18 "2023-09-06T13:08:39Z")
How or which software or programming language did you make the API call with? Can you copy-paste your code here?