Since npm dropped support for self signed certs yesterday, I can no longer install any packages from npm running on Windows Azure.
On my local machine I could solve the issue by applying this official fix. However, I couldn't find a way to fix the problem on my site instance. Any ideas?
Until we update NPM on Azure, one simple way to work around this is to create a custom deployment script (info here).
Here is a sample repo that demonstrates what to customize: https://github.com/davidebbo-test/AzureNpmCertWorkaround. Specifically, look at this commit, which uses the npm config set ca "" workaround.
If you don't want to deal with generating a custom deployment script using the Azure tool, you can simply grab the .deployment and the deploy.cmd from the test repo, and commit them to the root of your repo.
Since yesterday (Feb 27, 2014) NPM doesn't support self signed certificates anymore: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more
The solution: either
Upgrade your version of npm
npm update -g
-- or --
Tell your current version of npm to use known registrars
npm config set ca=""
-- or ---
As last resort resolution I don't suggest this for security issues, using SSL is always safer, switch your registry to use HTTP instead of HTTPS:
npm config set registry="http://registry.npmjs.org/"
You can't run npm install npm -g. npm install being broken is the problem, remember? A good tip from the comments on npm's blog post, worked like a charm:
npm config set strict-ssl false
npm install npm -g
npm config set strict-ssl true
You may need to use sudo.
Error Name: Error: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
Steps to be followed to overcome this error:
1) Update Node.js and npm to its latest version,
2) Run these three commands in a sequence.
-npm config set strict-ssl false
-npm update npm –g
-npm config set strict-ssl true
3) Set properties proxy and https-proxy in the npm config using these commands:
-npm config set proxy “http://<proxy-name>:8080”
-npm config set https-proxy “http://<proxy-name>:8080”
