npm install giving error while accessing GIT url

Question

my package.json has the following dependency,

    {   "name": "AppName",   "version": "0.0.0",   "description": "App Description",   "author": "@author",   "dependencies": {},   "devDependencies": {     "css-flip": "git://github.com/geedmo/css-flip",     "gulp": "^3.8.10",     "gulp-angular-htmlify": "^0.4.0",     "gulp-changed": "^1.1.0",     "gulp-compass": "^2.0.4",     "gulp-concat": "^2.4.1",     "gulp-css-flip": "^0.4.0",     "gulp-expect-file": "0.0.7",     "gulp-filter": "^1.0.2",     "gulp-html-prettify": "0.0.1",     "gulp-if": "^1.2.5",     "gulp-ignore": "^1.2.1",     "gulp-jade": "^0.8.0",     "gulp-jsvalidate": "^2.0.0",     "gulp-less": "^1.3.9",     "gulp-livereload": "^2.1.1",     "gulp-load-plugins": "^0.10.0",     "gulp-minify-css": "^0.3.11",     "gulp-ng-annotate": "^0.4.3",     "gulp-rename": "^1.2.0",     "gulp-sass": "^1.3.2",     "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.3.0",     "gulp-sync": "^0.1.4",     "gulp-uglify": "^1.1.0",     "gulp-util": "^3.0.1",     "marked": "^0.3.2",     "through2": "^0.6.3",     "yargs": "^3.7.2"   },   "scripts": {     "prestart": "bower install",     "start": "npm install",     "poststart": "gulp"   } } 

when I execute npm install command, I am getting the following error,

npm WARN addRemoteGit Error: Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url npm WARN addRemoteGit npm WARN addRemoteGit     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:751:12) npm WARN addRemoteGit     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17) npm WARN addRemoteGit     at maybeClose (child_process.js:1015:16) npm WARN addRemoteGit     at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:1183:11) npm WARN addRemoteGit     at Socket.emit (events.js:107:17) npm WARN addRemoteGit     at Pipe.close (net.js:485:12) npm WARN addRemoteGit  git://github.com/geedmo/css-flip.git resetting remote C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\git-github-com-geedmo-css-flip-git-3c35004c because of error: {  [Error: Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url npm WARN addRemoteGit ] npm WARN addRemoteGit   killed: false, npm WARN addRemoteGit   code: 1, npm WARN addRemoteGit   signal: null, npm WARN addRemoteGit   cmd: 'git -c core.longpaths=true config --get remote.origin.url' } npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\_templates --mirror git://github.com/geedmo/css-flip.git C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remot es\git-github-com-geedmo-css-flip-git-3c35004c: Cloning into bare repository 'C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\git-github-com-geedmo-css-flip-git-3c35004c'... npm ERR! git clone --template=C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\_templates --mirror git://github.com/geedmo/css-flip.git C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remot es\git-github-com-geedmo-css-flip-git-3c35004c: fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (No such host is known. ) npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601 npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" npm ERR! node v0.12.7 npm ERR! npm  v2.11.3 npm ERR! code 128  npm ERR! Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true clone --template=C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\_templates --mirror git://github.com/geedmo/css-flip.git C:\Users\drj8c ob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\git-github-com-geedmo-css-flip-git-3c35004c npm ERR! Cloning into bare repository 'C:\Users\drj8cob\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_git-remotes\git-github-com-geedmo-css-flip-git-3c35004c'... npm ERR! fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (No such host is known. ) npm ERR! npm ERR! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at: npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues> 

I am new to node modules and git. Should i have to do any configuration related to GIT in node modules?

[Edit] : I am behind a corporate proxy. Should have to give any configuration related to that? I added proxy details in .npmrc file in users/<username>/.npmrc file. My path variable has the Git/bin location as well.

Answer 1

This question has an answer in an other thread. The issue occurred since I was behind corporate proxy. And @bnguyen82's answer helped me finally.

I just used the following command and the issue got resolved.

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://