Beyond The Wall (Proxy)

North of the Wall, things are different. That's where the children went, and the giants, and the other old races.

Nowadays a lot of development resources are managed via a package manager. While this makes life a lot easier almost all of the time, it can be a little bit of a headache if you aren't set up like everyone else is. When I first started out at Motorola, I had a rough time getting some of these to work. I finally realized that it had to do with me being behind the company proxy.  So here is what you need to do to get a couple things to work if you are behind a company proxy so hopefully someone else doesn't have to go through what I did.

1. Bower
Open up your bower config file (.bowerrc) and add the following lines:

  "proxy":"http(s)://server:port/",
  "https-proxy":"http(s)://server:port/"

2. Git 

Open up your .gitconfig file and add the following lines:

[http]
    proxy = http(s)://server:port/
[https]
    proxy = http(s)://server:port/

3. NPM

I believe these get stored in the .npmrc file, but npm recommends you set them via command line with these commands.

npm config set proxy http(s)://server:port npm config set https-proxy http(s)://server:port

Your .npmrc file then looks like this:

proxy =http(s)://server:port
https_proxy = http(s)://server:port

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