npmjs for enterprise: caches JSONs and attachments (.tgz files) on the File System

• central registry downtime free
• reduces bandwidth usage
• speeds up packages download

First, clone the repo. Then:

npm install

• Copy the "config.js.sample" file as "config.js"
• Edit the "config.js" configuration file to fit your needs

If you want to use an Apache reverse proxy, you can use the following configuration:

# AllowEncodedSlashes required for scoped modules that have URLs of the form "@scope%2fmodule" (with %2f corresponding to url-encoded "/") 
AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
# "nocanon" required to prevent "%2f" to be encoded to %252f
ProxyPass           / http://localhost:1337/  nocanon
ProxyPassReverse    / http://localhost:1337/
ProxyPreserveHost   On

node app.js

On the npm user computer, configure npm to use your proxy:

npm set registry "[proxyURL]"