git is blocked, how to install npm modules

Question

We are connected through a proxy and here, git is blocked ( not the website but on git//: ) we tried with egit, "git on windows", with and without proxy but not a single clone to local happened.

Now the problem is to install npm modules, I tried by downloading modules(zip) from git website (over web) and tried the local install, which worked but the problem here is huge number of dependencies, it is not easy to pull modules one by one to fill dependencies (and inner dependencies).

So how to solve this problem, I feel there can be three ways to find solution:

• Allowing git tunneling through firewall (i have no friends in n/w team ).
• Suggest me some way to pull modules with dependencies over http:// (and not git://) when doing npm install.
• Download from git website modules + full dependencies, in single shot.

Answer 1

Npm and git do not use your Windows proxy settings.

You can configure them with:

set HTTP_PROXY=http://user:[e-mail]:port

Also see https://superuser.com/questions/347476/how-to-install-npm-behind-authentication-proxy-on-windows

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If you can't get your proxy working you can run npm install on a machine that has a direct internet connection (e.g. a server in the dmz, at your hosting provider, in the cloud, etc.) and then copy the node_modules folder to your local machine.

Answer 2

The git proxy setting worked for me for cloning repos from github. But, when installing/updating a npm module that uses a git url, I am still getting the timeout error. The workaround for me was to set the proxy manually in the .git/config file for the repo.

[http]
    proxy = http://proxy.company.com:8888   

But wait, there is more: this worked for some git url but not for other. The second and final workaround was to make sure the git proxy is set in both user config files, since my PC had a shared network user home on I drive:

I:\.gitconfig
C:\Users\<userid>\.gitconfig

Credits to this comment.

Answer 3

Copied from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/10729634/1095114

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If this is an issue with your firewall blocking the git: protocol port (9418), then you should make a more persistent change so you don't have to remember to issue commands suggested by other posts for every git repo. This also just works for submodules that might be using the git:// protocol too.

Simply issue the following command:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

This simply adds the following two lines to ~/.gitconfig:

[url "https://"] insteadOf = git://

Now, as if by magic, all git commands will perform a substitution of git:// to https://