bower proxy configuration

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is there a way to configure bower not only to use a proxy but ignore the proxy configuration for some domains?

I have the problem, that I will run an internal bower registry for our own developed components. For that repository I would like to ignore the proxy configuration.

score 76 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '14 at 08:17

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Edit your .bowerrc file ( should be next to your bower.json file ) and add the wanted proxy configuration

"proxy":"http://<host>:<port>",
"https-proxy":"http://<host>:<port>"

answered Jan 23 '14 at 08:17

Itsik Avidan

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where are either of these files in ubuntu? – KillerSnail Apr 16 '14 at 04:05
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If the file is not present, create it in the same folder as bower.json. Also, it should be valid JSON, so wrap it with {}. See @eastolfi's answer. – Ali Cheaito Apr 23 '14 at 15:37
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You can also use this in your home folder as a global setting: in ~/ – Eric Steinborn Apr 28 '14 at 18:14
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This should be the selected answer, as per [the docs](http://bower.io/docs/config/) this is the correct way to configure Bower for these cases. – Sep 16 '14 at 12:57
This should be selected as answer. worked like a charm – Vishnudev K May 21 '15 at 13:59
Upvoted - I was already using CNTLM (as the accepted answer suggests), however I still had to create the `.bowerrc` to tell bower which port the proxy was listening on, thanks :) – danwild May 26 '15 at 23:08
Watch out for when this gets checked-into Git and runs on your build server which doesn't use the proxy. – Luke Puplett Dec 11 '15 at 12:19

score 55 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 20 '19 at 00:45

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For info, in your .bowerrc file you can add a no-proxy attribute. I don't know since when it is supported but it works on bower 1.7.4

.bowerrc :

{
  "directory": "bower_components", 
  "proxy": "http://yourProxy:yourPort",
  "https-proxy":"http://yourProxy:yourPort",
  "no-proxy":"myserver.mydomain.com"
}

.bowerrc should be located in the root folder of your Javascript project, the folder in which you launch the bower command. You can also have it in your home folder (~/.bowerrc).

edited Feb 20 '19 at 00:45

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answered Mar 02 '16 at 14:16

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The .bowerrc file must be placed in which folder? – ajey Mar 27 '17 at 07:13
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The root folder of your javascript project. The folder in which you launch the bower command. – loicmathieu Mar 28 '17 at 07:27
You can have the file in `~/.bowerrc` as well, it doesn't need to be in the project's folder. – Dinei May 03 '17 at 20:12

score 27 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 04 '17 at 04:15

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I had ETIMEDOUT error, and after putting

{
  "proxy":"http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>",
  "https-proxy":"http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>"
}

just worked. I don't know if you have something wrong in the .bowerrc or ECONNRESET can't be solved with this, but I hope this help you ;)

edited Jul 04 '17 at 04:15

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answered Mar 03 '14 at 12:02

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score 14 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 13 '14 at 12:36

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I struggled with this from behind a proxy so I thought I should post what I did. Below one is worked for me.

-> "export HTTPS_PROXY=(yourproxy)"

answered Mar 13 '14 at 12:36

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Adding HTTPS_PROXY to my system variables in windows worked great, Thanks! – Falkenfighter May 12 '14 at 16:18

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 27 '15 at 21:13

The key for me was adding an extra line, "strict-ssl": false

Create .bowerrc on root folder, and add the following,

{
  "directory": "bower_components", // If you change this, your folder named will change within dependecies. EX) Vendors instead of bower_components.
  "proxy": "http://yourProxy:yourPort",
  "https-proxy":"http://yourProxy:yourPort",
  "strict-ssl": false 
}

Best of luck for the people still stuck on this.

score 7 · Answer 6 · edited May 18 '14 at 12:53

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There is no way to configure an exclusion to the proxy settings, but a colleague of mine had an create solution for that particular problem. He installed a local proxy server called cntlm. That server supports ntlm authentication and exclusions to the general proxy settings. A perfect match.

edited May 18 '14 at 12:53

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answered Sep 05 '13 at 13:12

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score 4 · Answer 7 · edited Dec 16 '15 at 19:30

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Inside your local project open the .bowerrc that contains:

{
   "directory": "bower_components"
 }

and add the following code-line:

{
   "directory": "bower_components",
  "proxy": "http://yourProxy:yourPort",
  "https-proxy":"http://yourProxy:yourPort"
}

bower version: 1.7.1

Cheers

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answered Dec 15 '15 at 20:13

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I found this solution a lot of times, but in my case I don't have proxy so.. I don't understand why I have to set a proxy definition in .bowerrc – Daniel Iturriza Feb 28 '16 at 03:44
Daniel, if you are not behind a proxy, just live the .bowerrc as it is... – Rene Cejas Bolecek Dec 26 '16 at 18:09

score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Apr 21 '16 at 15:28

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Add the below entry to your .bowerrc:

{
  "proxy":"http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>",
  "https-proxy":"http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>"
}

Also if your password contains any special character URL-encode it Eg: replace the @ character with %40

edited Apr 21 '16 at 15:28

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answered Apr 21 '16 at 13:47

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered May 05 '17 at 21:14

Are you using Windows? Just set the environment variable http_proxy...

set http_proxy=http://your-proxy-address.com:port

... and bower will pick this up. Rather than dealing with a unique config file in your project folder - right? (side-note: when-the-F! will windows allow us to create a .file using explorer? c'mon windows!)

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 20:10

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create .bowerrc file in you home directory and adding this to the file worked for me

{

 "directory": "bower_components",
 "proxy": "http://youProxy:yourPort",
  "https-proxy":"http://yourProxy:yourPort"
}

answered Mar 18 '16 at 20:10

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score -6 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 20 '15 at 19:06

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add in .bowerrc

{SET HTTP_PROXY= http://HOST:PORT,SET HTTPS_PROXY=http://HOST:PORT}

In NPM, you must to execute in console this:

npm --proxy http://Host:Port install

answered Nov 20 '15 at 19:06

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