LuaRocks through a proxy

LuaRocks performs network access through either helper applications (typically curl on Mac OSX, or wget on other platforms), or using built-in modules LuaSocket and LuaSec. All of them use the same method to configure proxies: the http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables.

Environment variable example

On Unix systems, you can set the ''http_proxy'' environment variable like this:

export http_proxy=http://server:1234

On Windows systems, the command syntax is:

set http_proxy=http://server:1234

Git

If you are behind a firewall that blocks the git:// protocol, you may configure your Git to use HTTPS instead. The solution is to tell Git to always use HTTPS instead of git:// by running the following command:

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

This adds the following to your ~/.gitconfig:

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

External references

• curl manpage
• "How to use wget through proxy"
• "Tell git to use https instead of git protocol"