verdaccio/docs/config.md

id	title
configuration	Configuration File

This file is the cornerstone of verdaccio where you can modify the default behaviour, enable plugins and extend features.

A default configuration file is created the very first time you run verdaccio.

Default Configuration

The default configuration has support for scoped packages and allow any user to access all packages but only authenticated users to publish.

storage: ./storage
auth:
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
uplinks:
  npmjs:
    url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
packages:
  '@*/*':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated
    proxy: npmjs
  '**':
    proxy: npmjs
logs:
  - {type: stdout, format: pretty, level: http}

Sections

The following sections explain what means each property and the different options.

Storage

Is the location of the default storage. Verdaccio is by default based on local file system.

storage: ./storage

Authentification

The authentification set up is done here, the default auth is based on htpasswd and is built-in. You can modify this behaviour via plugins. For more information about this section read the auth page.

auth:
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
    max_users: 1000

Web UI

This properties allow you to modify the look and feel of the web UI. For more information about this section read the web ui page.

web:
  enable: true
  title: Verdaccio
  logo: logo.png

Uplinks

Uplinks is the ability of the system to fetch packages from remote registries when those packages are not available locally. For more information about this section read the uplinks page.

uplinks:
  npmjs:
    url: https://registry.npmjs.org/

Packages

Packages allow the user how the packages are gonna be accessed. For more information about this section read the packages page.

packages:
  '@*/*':
    access: $all
    publish: $authenticated
    proxy: npmjs

Advanced Settings

Offline Publish

By default verdaccio does not allow to publish when the client is offline, that behavior can be overridden set it in to true.

publish:
  allow_offline: false

Since: verdaccio@2.3.6 due #223

URL Prefix

url_prefix: https://dev.company.local/verdaccio/

Since: verdaccio@2.3.6 due #197

Max Body Size

By default the maximum body size for a JSON document is 1mb, if you run in errors as "request entity too large" you may increase this value.

max_body_size: 1mb

Listen Port

verdaccio runs by default in the port 4873. Change the port can be done via cli or in the configuration file, the following options are valid.

listen:
# - localhost:4873            # default value
# - http://localhost:4873     # same thing
# - 0.0.0.0:4873              # listen on all addresses (INADDR_ANY)
# - https://example.org:4873  # if you want to use https
# - "[::1]:4873"                # ipv6
# - unix:/tmp/verdaccio.sock    # unix socket

HTTPS

To enable https in verdaccio enough with set your listen domain with the protocol https://. For more information about this section read the ssl page.

https:
    key: ./path/verdaccio-key.pem
    cert: ./path/verdaccio-cert.pem
    ca: ./path/verdaccio-csr.pem

Proxy

Proxies are special-purpose HTTP servers designed to transfer data from remote servers to local clients.

http_proxy and https_proxy

If you have a proxy in your network you can set a X-Forwarded-For header using the following properties.

http_proxy: http://something.local/
https_proxy: https://something.local/

no_proxy

This variable should contain a comma-separated list of domain extensions proxy should not be used for.

http_proxy: http://something.local/
https_proxy: https://something.local/

Notifications

Enable notifications to three party tools is fairly easy via web hooks. For more information about this section read the notifications page.

notify:
  method: POST
  headers: [{'Content-Type': 'application/json'}]
  endpoint: https://usagge.hipchat.com/v2/room/3729485/notification?auth_token=mySecretToken
  content: '{"color":"green","message":"New package published: * {{ name }}*","notify":true,"message_format":"text"}'

For more detailed configuration settings, please check the source code.