npmO-vagrant

a vagrant setup for trialing npm On-Site

Want to use npm, but behind a firewall? npm offers npm On-Site as a way to replicate the npm Public Registry, run it behind a firewall, allowing for:

• use/publish private packages
• use/publish public packages
• whitelist/blacklist public packages

Prerequisites

To get up and running all you'll need is:

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox
• a FREE npm On-site Trial Key

Up and Running

1. Install and/or retrieve all the Prerequisites
2. Type vagrant up in your terminal
3. Open localhost:8800 in your browser
4. You'll see a screen that looks like this
5. Click Advanced. It will show another panel that looks like this
6. Click Proceed to localhost(unsafe) (it's safe. i promise 😄)
7. You'll see a screen that looks like this Type localhost and then click Use Self-Signed Certificate
8. You'll see a screen that asks for your email address and License key, type those in and press the button to continue
9. You'll see a screen that looks like this Replace what is pre-filled with:
   • Full URL of npm On-Site registry: localhost:8081
   • Full URL of npm On-Site website: localhost:8082
10. Scroll down until you see a section called "Authentication" that looks like the image below. Select Open.
11. Save. You'll see a dialog to restart your service. Click Restart Now.
12. Visit localhost:8082. You have the npm website running! You registry is running at localhost:8081