Is there a way to make npm install (the command) to work behind proxy?

Question

Read about a proxy variable in a .npmrc file but it does not work. Trying to avoid manually downloading all require packages and installing.

Answer 1

vim ~/.npmrc in your Linux machine and add following. Don't forget to add registry part as this cause failure in many cases.

proxy=http://<proxy-url>:<port>
https-proxy=https://<proxy-url>:<port>
registry=http://registry.npmjs.org/

Answer 2

A lot of applications (e.g. npm) can use proxy setting from user environment variables.

You can just add to your environment following variables HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY that will have the same value for each one

http://user:password@proxyAddress:proxyPort

For example if you have Windows you can add proxy as follow:

Answer 3

There has been many answers above for this question, but none of those worked for me. All of them mentioned to add http:// prefix. So I added it too. All failed.

It finally works after I accidentally removed http:// prefix. Final config is like this:

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/
npm config set http-proxy ip:port
npm config set https-proxy ip:port
npm config set proxy ip:port
npm set strict-ssl false

I don't know the logic behind this, but it worked. If none of answers above works for you, maybe you can have a try on this way. Hope this one is useful.

Answer 4

This works for me in Windows:

npm config set proxy http://domain%5Cuser:pass@host:port

If you are not in any domain, use:

npm config set proxy http://user:pass@host:port

If your password contains special characters such as ",@,: and so on, replace them by their URL encoded values. For example "->%22, @->%40, :->%3A. %5C is used for the character \.

Answer 5

This worked for me-

npm config set proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080
npm config set https-proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080
npm set strict-ssl=false

Answer 6

Though i set proxy with config, problem was not solved but after This one worked for me:

npm --https-proxy http://XX.AA.AA.BB:8080 install cordova-plugins

npm --proxy http://XX.AA.AA.BB:8080 install