cordova and ionic installation issue on Windows 8.1 64 bit

Question

I have windows 8.1 64 Bit. I have installed node.js but when I run this command

npm install -g cordova ionic

it gives me these error.

npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/escape-html/-/escape-html-1.0.1
.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 185.3
1.17.162:443
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/colors/-/colors-1.0.3.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 185.3
1.17.162:443

I have googled a lot but could not find a solution. What is the solution to this?

Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

The solution was to set the proxy settings

npm config set proxy http://user:password@url:port

npm config set https-proxy http://user:password@url:port