Zscaler Fix for proxy errors

You will need to open Zscaler and in the more section click Update Policy.

Keep in mind port localhost:9000 is now exclusively used by Zscaler client and cannot be used to deploy local apps.

NPM Proxy

You will need to do proxy settings when on the COT network. You can use these commands in your terminal.

npm

Run the following commands to set up all npm projects to use a proxy. These commands should only have to be done once on your workstation.

npm config set proxy "http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080" --location=global
npm config set https-proxy "http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080" --location=global

git

Run the following commands to set up all git projects to use a proxy. Note that you MUST be in a git directory when you run this command. The simplest way to accomplish this is to create a temporary git directory first:

1. Create a temporary directory and CD into it

   mkdir temp && cd temp

2. Initialize it as a git directory

   git init

3. Configure your proxy setting, globally: 

   git config http.proxy http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080 --global

   
   
   

4. Get out of the directory:

   cd ..

5. Delete the temp directory.

   # on mac 
   rm -r temp
   # on Windows 
   rmdir temp /s

environment variables

Set up ENV variables within your command line. These are used by various tools, including bower.

On a Mac:

cd into your main user folder and update or create .bash_profile 

cd && nano .bash_profile

Make sure that the following code is in the file (if not, create it)

export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080
export http_proxy=http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080
export https_proxy=http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080

Save the file and exit : ^O and ^X

On a PC:

1. Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings
2. Click on the Environment Variables... button
3. Add http_proxy and https_proxy as variables, both with the same value: http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080

Alternately, you can set these via command line, but you will have to execute them every time you open your command prompt:

set http_proxy=http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080
set https_proxy=http://proxy.toronto.ca:8080

Important! A note about these proxy settings: sometimes the proxy stops working or doesn't work because your username and password isn't in the proxy URL. You can 'refresh your proxy session' by keeping a web browser open on your system, and navigating to an external website (something not in your browser cache is probably best) when you run into issues. This seems to 'reset' how the proxy server allows your machine on to the proxy without a username/password in the URL.