HELP - I've broken my Nodebb install - NPM self-signed certificate issue [SOLVED]

[bentael]

the community is pissed over this, don't worry @giorgio-chiodi you're not alone.
! http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more

[Giorgio Chiodi]

yey! i hope there's a fix though

[bentael]

did you try the attempted solution in the StackOverflow link?

EDIT: you most likely need sudo to update npm

[Giorgio Chiodi]

it's downloading...

[Sp4rkR4t]

This post is deleted!

[bentael]

actually that doesn't make sense, if you can't download anything from npm how could you download npm itself.
try npm config set ca ""

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@bentael ah yes, that's why it didn't work!

[Giorgio Chiodi]

still waiting... the script, I mean

[bentael]

so try the set ca workaround, then update npm, ..

also someone suggested:

sudo npm config set strict-ssl false
sudo npm update npm -g
sudo npm config set strict-ssl true

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@bentael Ok it's working again! YEY!

I did this

sudo npm config set ca ""

followed by this

sudo npm config set strict-ssl false
sudo npm update npm -g
sudo npm config set strict-ssl true

then

./nodebb upgrade

[Giorgio Chiodi]

thanks to everyone for helping us out!

[bentael]

@giorgio-chiodi you're welcome, could you re-edit your comment so the commands won't be on the same line, use the 3 backticks to start and end a code block "`"

sudo npm config set strict-ssl false 
sudo npm update npm -g 
sudo npm config set strict-ssl true

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@bentael ah that's how you did it. yours still looks better than mine, though.

[bentael]

YUP