nodejs npm global config missing on windows

Question

I can t find at all where npm has its global settings stored   npm config get userconfig  C  Users Jack  npmrc   npm config get globalconfig  C  Users Jack AppData Roaming npm etc npmrc   There s no files at either of these paths and yet   npm config get proxy -  returns my proxy url for work  which I want to delete   npm config -g delete proxy  npm ERR  Error  ENOENT  unlink  C  Users Jack AppData Roaming npm etc npmrc   npm ERR  System Windows NT 6 2 9200 npm ERR  command  C   Program Files  nodejs    node exe   C   Program Files  nodejs  node modules  npm  bin  npm-cli js   config   -g   delete   proxy  npm ERR  cwd C  f Dropbox apps npm ERR  node -v v0 8 22 npm ERR  npm -v 1 2 14 npm ERR  path C  Users Jack AppData Roaming npm etc npmrc npm ERR  code ENOENT npm ERR  errno 34 npm ERR  npm ERR  Additional logging details can be found in  npm ERR      C  f Dropbox apps npm-debug log npm ERR  not ok code 0

User · Answer

There is a problem with upgrading npm under Windows. The inital install done as part of the nodejs install using an msi package will create an npmrc file:

C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\npmrc

when you update npm using:

npm install -g npm@latest

it will install the new version in:

C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Roaming\npm

assuming that your name is Jack, which is %APPDATA%\npm.

The new install does not include an npmrc file and without it the global root directory will be based on where node was run from, hence it is C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules

You can check this by running:

npm root -g

This will not work as npm does not have permission to write into the "Program Files" directory. You need to copy the npmrc file from the original install into the new install. By default the file only has the line below:

prefix=${APPDATA}\npm

User · Answer

How to figure it out  Start with npm root -- it will show you the root folder for NPM packages for the current user   Add -g and you get a global folder  Don t forget to substract node modules    Use npm config   npm config -g and check that it d create you a new  npmrc   npmrc file for you   Tested on Windows 10 Pro  NPM v 6 4 1   Global NPM config  C  Users  username  AppData Roaming npm etc npmrc   Per-user NPM config  C  Users  username   npmrc   Built-in NPM config  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm npmrc   References    https   docs npmjs com files npmrc https   docs npmjs com misc config https   docs npmjs com cli root html

User · Answer

Isn t this the path you are looking for  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm npmrc I know that npm outputs that   but the global folder is the folder where node js is installed and all the modules are

User · Answer

It looks like the files npm uses to edit its config files are not created on a clean install  as npm has a default option for each one  This is why you can still get options with npm config get  lt option gt   having those files only overrides the defaults  it doesn t create the options from scratch   I had never touched my npm config stuff before today  even though I had had it for months now  None of the files were there yet  such as    npmrc  on a Windows 8 1 machine with Git Bash   yet I could run npm config get  lt something gt  and  if it was a correct npm option  it returned a value  When I ran npm config set  lt option gt   lt value gt   the file    npmrc seemed to be created automatically  with the option  amp  its value as the only non-commented-out line   As for deleting options  it looks like this just sets the value back to the default value  or does nothing if that option was never set or was unset  amp  never reset  Additionally  if that option is the only explicitly set option  it looks like    npmrc is deleted  too  and recreated if you set anything else later   In your case  assuming it is still the same over a year later   it looks like you never set the proxy option in npm  Therefore  as npm s config help page says  it is set to whatever your http proxy  case-insensitive  environment variable is  This means there is nothing to delete  unless you want to  delete  your HTTP proxy  although you could set the option or environment variable to something else and hope neither breaks your set-up somehow

User · Answer

Even though we have the  NPMRC can be in 3 locations   Please NOTE THAT - the file under the Per-User NPM config location take precedence over the Global  amp  Built-in configurations    Global NPM config    C  Users  username  AppData Roaming npm etc npmrc Per-user NPM config    C  Users  username  npmrc Built-in NPM config    C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm npmrc   To find out which file is getting updated  try setting the proxy using the following command     npm config set https-proxy https   username password proxy company com 6050  After that open the  npmrc files to see which file get updated

User · Answer

For me  being on Windows 10  the npmrc file was located in     USERPROFILE   npmrc   Tested with    npm v4 2 0 Node js v7 8 0

User · Answer

Have you tried running npm config list  And  if you want to see the defaults  run npm config ls -l

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