---
id: uplinks
date: '2017-07-10T23:36:56.503Z'
title: "Uplinks"
---

An *uplink* is a link with an external registry that provides acccess to external packages.

### Usage

```yaml
uplinks:
  npmjs:
   url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
  server2:
    url: http://mirror.local.net/
    timeout: 100ms
  server3:
    url: http://mirror2.local.net:9000/
  baduplink:
    url: http://localhost:55666/
```
### Configuration

You can define mutiple uplinks and each of them must have an unique name (key). They can have two properties:

Property | Type | Required | Example | Support | Description | Default
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
url | string | Yes | https://registry.npmjs.org/ | all | The registry url |
timeout | string | No | 100ms | all | set new timeout for the request | 30s
maxage | string | No |10m | all | limit maximun failure request | 2m
fail_timeout | string | No |10m | all | defines max time when a request becomes a failure | 5m
max_fails | number | No |2 | all | limit maximun failure request | 2
cache | boolean | No |[true,false] | >= 2.1 | avoid cache tarballs | true
auth | list | No | type: [bearer,basic], [token: "token",token_env: [true,\<get name process.env\>]]  | >= 2.5 | assigns the header 'Authorization' see: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/118393368555/deploying-with-npm-private-modules |
headers | list | No | authorization: "Basic YourBase64EncodedCredentials==" | all | list of custom headers for the uplink |


### You Must know

* Uplinks must be registries compatible with the `npm` endpoints. Eg: *verdaccio*, *sinopia@1.4.0*, *npmjs registry*, *yarn registry* and more.
* Setting `cache` to false will help to save space in your hard drive.
* Exceed with multiple uplinks might slow down the lookup of your packages due for each request a npm client does, verdaccio does 1 call for each uplink.
* The (timeout, maxage and fail_timeout) format follow the [NGINX measurement units](http://nginx.org/en/docs/syntax.html)