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Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Marcus Wyatt

Marcus Wyatt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:57:33 +0000

As far as I know you shouldn’t have any issues at all with just a std router. It sounds like you have a specific port or range of ports blocked, which the gem command will use when connecting to the gem hosts. Also(going far back into the memory banks), check your windows firewall settings, you might have blocked some previous request that is now causing your headaches.

If all else fails, you could always just get a Mac. I’ve stopped using Windows 2 years ago and now just run os x and ubuntu.

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Marcus Wyatt

Marcus Wyatt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:45:58 +0000

Firstly, you have extracted the .gem file from the archive? If you have, you will have the rubysspi-1.2.3.gem file somewhere on the file system. Now change your working directory to where the .gem file is located and then executing the gem install command.

In the above code the .gem file was located at ‘C:\gems\rubysspi-1.2.3.gem’ so I would cd into the ‘C:\gems\’ directory and then execute the command ‘gem install rubysspi-1.2.3.gem’.

You can probably also try the latest version of the gem (version 1.3.1).

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Marcos

Marcos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:12:10 +0000

Tried all this with no success.

I’m not behind a proxy, only behind a router. After all the teaks suggested here I still get:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
HTTP Response 403

What should I use as http_proxy? Tried router IP, my current IP provided by ISP. Any lights?

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by srinivasan m

srinivasan m — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:18:48 +0000

Hi,

I cannot follow the second step which is “Install the gem locally using the following command: gem install [local_path_to_gem]\rubysspi-1.2.3.gem i.e. C:\gems\rubysspi-1.2.3.gem”

I have downloaded the rubysspi-1.2.3.gem.tar from the website. But while trying the above step in installing, I could not install it properly.. Can somebody explain more on this.

The error which I am getting is, ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository. ERROR: could not find gem C:\gems\rubysspi-1.3.1.gem locally or in a repository.

Thank you.

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:46:38 +0000

Thank you!

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Romain

Romain — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:35:36 +0000

Thanks for the article!

I only had to change the following:

set http_proxy=http://domain\username:password@server:port

When setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, I had to escape all non alphanumeric characters. For example, the \ between the domain and username becomes %5C. I also had a # in my password which had to become %23.

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:03:21 +0000

Great article! Your instructions, in combination with Roy Pardee’s comment, works perfect for a windows authenticated proxy.

Thanks to both of you.

Comment on Run gem install behind a firewall in Windows by Don

Don — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:08:57 +0000

Ron,
Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Comment on ActionMailer – SocketError (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known) blues by Priyanka

Priyanka — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:28:31 +0000

Thanks! I was struggling with this error for so long

Comment on ActionMailer – SocketError (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known) blues by Scott

Scott — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:52:47 +0000

Thanks, this helped me get by an error I had when trying to set up redmine. Changing the host to localhost did the trick!