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Debajit

Reputation: 47171

Getting Git to work with a proxy server - fails with "Request timed out"

How do I get Git to use a proxy server?

I need to check out code from a Git server, but it shows "Request timed out" every time. How do I get around this?

Alternatively, how can I set a proxy server?

Upvotes: 1043

Views: 1404222

Answers (23)

Vahid Sadeghi
Vahid Sadeghi

Reputation: 115

To create socks5 proxy create ~/.gitconfig file and put following lines:

[http]
    proxy = socks5://127.0.0.1:<port>
[https]
    proxy = socks5://127.0.0.1:<port>
[url "https://"]
    insteadOf = git://


Make sure change port with your proxy port number

Upvotes: 1

maryf
maryf

Reputation: 150

Since no one mentioned this way, I`ll share what worked for me:

git config --global http.proxy 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080' 
git config --global https.proxy 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080'

Changing 127.0.0.1 to the IP/URL for the proxy and the port.

Upvotes: 1

frmbelz
frmbelz

Reputation: 2553

To change https.proxy config for a single repository (not global git config) before a new clone (you can not change repo git config before repository exists)

cd /path/to/new/clone/
git init .
git config http.proxy http://...myProxy.com:myPort
git config https.proxy https://...myProxy.com:myPort
git remote add origin https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git
git fetch origin
git checkout -b master --track origin/master

Note: I needed https.proxy (not http.proxy) to have it working.

Note: you can find your proxy settings on Windows 10 at Settings -> Network&Internet -> Proxy -> Address + Port

Upvotes: 1

fatemeh sadeghi
fatemeh sadeghi

Reputation: 2603

An alternative to using a proxy is to use SSH

In the Git configurations, configure the origin remote on the SSH address. Then use the ssh-keygen command, which gives you a public key that you can set in your GitLab or Gitab account settings and login accordingly done...

  1. Verify which remotes are using by running git remote -v in your Git client.

  2. If this is http(s) URL, changed it to ssh address , run: git remote set-url <remote name, e.g. origin> <new SSH URL>. For example,

     git remote set-url [email protected]:example/myproject.git

  3. To generate SSH key for login, run: ssh-keygen -o. This command generate public (id_rsa.pub file) and private keys.

  4. Copy public key contents. (from id_rsa.pub file)

  5. Go to GitLab, GitHub, etc. profile section → setting/ssh-key. Create a new SSH key and paste the public key contents

Upvotes: 0

Ishtdeep Hora
Ishtdeep Hora

Reputation: 320

I have tried all the previous answers and nothing worked for me, as there was a proxy password encoding issues.

This command worked:

git config --global http.proxy http://[email protected]:PortNumber

Do not enter the password in your command. It will dynamically ask for when you try to connect to any Git repository.

Upvotes: 4

hannad rehman
hannad rehman

Reputation: 4341

Here is the proxy setting:

git config --global http.proxy http://<username>:<pass>@<ip>:<port>
git config --global https.proxy http://<username>:<pass>@<ip>:<port>

Upvotes: 3

blacelle
blacelle

Reputation: 2217

In addition of these answers, I found helpful to consider these two points:

One may need to enforce an authentication scheme:

[http]
    # https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/config.txt
    proxyAuthMethod = anyauth|basic|digest|negotiate|ntlm

Also, typically with an NTLM authentication schema, one may need to provide the AD domain explicitly.

In Git Bash:

echo %userdomain%

And update the http.proxy accordingly:

git config --global http.proxy http://DOMAIN\\proxyuser:[email protected]:8080

Anyway, investigation may be helped by adding CURL logs:

export GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

Upvotes: 7

Arpit Aggarwal
Arpit Aggarwal

Reputation: 29316

Faced same issue because of multiple .gitconfig files in Windows, followed below steps to fix the same:

Step 1: Open Git Bash

Step 2: Look for .gitconfig, executing following command:

git config --list --global --show-origin

Step 3: Copy the below content in .gitconfig:

[http]
    proxy = http://YOUR_PROXY_USERNAME:[email protected]:YOUR.PROXY.SERVER.PORT
    sslverify = false
[https]
    proxy = http://YOUR_PROXY_USERNAME:[email protected]:YOUR.PROXY.SERVER.PORT
    sslverify = false
[url "http://github.com/"]
    insteadOf = git://github.com/

[user]
    name = Arpit Aggarwal
    email = [email protected]

Upvotes: 18

augustocbx
augustocbx

Reputation: 782

Try to put the following in the ~/.gitconfig file:

[http]
    proxy = http://proxy:8080
[https]
    proxy = http://proxy:8080
[url "https://"]
    insteadOf = git://

Upvotes: 17

Add080bbA
Add080bbA

Reputation: 1876

Setting the Git proxy in the terminal

If

  • you do not want set a proxy for each of your Git projects manually, one by one, and
  • always want to use same proxy for all your projects

Set it globally once:

git config --global http.proxy username:password@proxy_url:proxy_port
git config --global https.proxy username:password@proxy_url:proxy_port

If you want to set a proxy for only one Git project (there may be some situations where you may not want to use same proxy or any proxy at all for some Git connections):

// Go to the project root
cd /bla_bla/project_root
// Set proxy for both HTTP and HTTPS
git config http.proxy username:password@proxy_url:proxy_port
git config https.proxy username:password@proxy_url:proxy_port

If you want to display the current proxy settings:

git config --list

If you want to remove the proxy globally:

git config --global --unset http.proxy
git config --global --unset https.proxy

If you want to remove the proxy for only one Git root:

// Go to the project root
cd /bla-bla/project_root
git config --unset http.proxy
git config --unset https.proxy

Upvotes: 4

Fangxing
Fangxing

Reputation: 6145

If you have tsocks or proxychains installed and configured, you can do

tsocks git clone <your_repository>

or

proxychains git clone <your_repository>

To make it shorter, I created a symbolic link, /usr/bin/p, for proxychains, so I can use it like this

p git clone <your_repository>

And I can use it to proxy any command,

p <cmd-need-be-proxied>

By the way, proxychains has not been updated for a long time, and you may want to try proxychians-ng instead.

Upvotes: 6

ashutosh
ashutosh

Reputation: 481

For the Git protocol (git://...), install socat and write a script such as:

#!/bin/sh

exec socat - socks4:your.company.com:$1:$2

Make it executable, put it in your path, and in your ~/.gitconfig set core.gitproxy to the name of that script.

Upvotes: 11

Salim Hamidi
Salim Hamidi

Reputation: 21401

The command to use:

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080
  • change proxyuser to your proxy user
  • change proxypwd to your proxy password
  • change proxy.server.com to the URL of your proxy server
  • change 8080 to the proxy port configured on your proxy server

Note that this works for both HTTP and HTTPS repositories.

If you decide at any time to reset this proxy and work without proxy:

The command to use:

git config --global --unset http.proxy

Finally, to check the currently-set proxy:

git config --global --get http.proxy

Upvotes: 1849

Randakar
Randakar

Reputation: 1035

If the command line way of configuring your proxy server doesn't work, you can probably just edit .gitconfig (in the root of your profile, which may hide both in C:\Documents and Settings and on some network drive) and add this:

[http]
    proxy = http://username:[email protected]:8080

Your mileage may vary though. This only covers the first step of the command line configuration. You may have to edit the system Git configuration too and I don’t have any idea where they hid that.

Upvotes: 48

alvaro
alvaro

Reputation: 2726

This worked for me, in Windows XP behind a corporate firewall.

I didn’t have to install any local proxy or any other software besides git v1.771 from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080
git config --system http.sslcainfo /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
git remote add origin https://mygithubuser:[email protected]/repoUser/repoName.git
git push origin master

proxyuser = the proxy user I was assigned by our IT department. In my case, it is the same Windows user I use to log in to my PC, the Active Directory user.

proxypwd = the password of my proxy user

proxy.server.com:8080 = the proxy name and port, I got it from Control Panel, Internet Options, Connections, LAN Settings button, Advanced button inside the Proxy Server section, use the servername and port on the first (http) row.

mygithubuser = the user I use to log in to github.com

mygithubpwd = the password for my github.com user

repoUser = the user owner of the repository

repoName = the name of the repository

Upvotes: 140

Debajit
Debajit

Reputation: 47171

Set a system variable named http_proxy with the value of ProxyServer:Port. That is the simplest solution. Respectively, use https_proxy as daefu pointed out in the comments.

Setting gitproxy (as sleske mentions) is another option, but that requires a "command", which is not as straightforward as the above solution.

References: Use Git behind a proxy

Upvotes: 57

Janac Meena
Janac Meena

Reputation: 3607

After tirelessly trying every solution on this page, my workaround was to use an SSH key instead!

  1. Open Git Bash
  2. ssh-keygen.exe -t rsa -C <Your username>
  3. Open your Git provider (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.)
  4. Add copy the id_rsa.pub file contents into Git provider's input page (check your profile)

Upvotes: 0

DomTomCat
DomTomCat

Reputation: 8569

For Windows users: if git config or set http_proxy= doesn't work, this answer may help:

Replace the git:// protocol of the Git repository with http://. Note, you'll have to set the http_proxy first, anyway.

Upvotes: 2

Shak Daniel
Shak Daniel

Reputation: 217

I work on Windows XP at work (state/government), so I did my research and found this here and it worked for me.

The http_proxy Environment Variable

If you use a proxy server or firewall, you may need to set the http_proxy environment variable in order to access some URL from the commandline.

Example: Installing PPM for Perl or applying an RPM file in Linux, updating Ubuntu

Set the http_proxy variable with the hostname or IP address of the proxy server:

http_proxy=http:// [proxy.example.org]

If the proxy server requires a user name and password, include them in the following form:

http_proxy=http:// [username:[email protected]]

If the proxy server uses a port other than 80, include the port number:

http_proxy=http:// [username:[email protected]:8080]

Windows XP

  1. Open the Control Panel and click the System icon.
  2. On the Advanced tab, click on Environment Variables.
  3. Click New in the System variables panel.
  4. Add http_proxy with the appropriate proxy information (see examples above).

Linux, Solaris or HP-UX

Set the http_proxy environment variable using the command specific to your shell (e.g., SET or export). To make this change persistent, add the command to the appropriate profile file for the shell. For example, in Bash, add a line like the following to your .bash_profile or .bashrc file:

  1. http_proxy=http:// [username:password@hostname:port];
  2. export $http_proxy

Upvotes: 7

Sk Hasanujjaman
Sk Hasanujjaman

Reputation: 321

If you are using Ubuntu, then do the following...

Step 1: Install Corkscrew

sudo apt-get install corkscrew

Step 2: Write a script named git-proxy.sh and add the following

#!/bin/sh

exec corkscrew <name of proxy server> <port> $*

# <name_of_proxy_server> and <port> are the ip address and port of the server
# e.g. exec corkscrew 192.168.0.1 808 $*

Step 3: Make the script executable

chmod +x git-proxy.sh

Step 4: Set up the proxy command for Git by setting the environment variable

export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND="/<path>/git-proxy.sh"

Now use the Git commands, such as

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Upvotes: 22

mi&#225;o
mi&#225;o

Reputation: 343

There's something I noticed and want to share here:

git config --global http.proxy http://<proxy address>:<port number>

The method above will not work for SSH URLs (i.e., [email protected]:<user name>/<project name>.git):

git clone [email protected]:<user name>/<project name>.git // will not use the http proxy

And things will not change if we set SSH over the HTTPS port (https://help.github.com/en/articles/using-ssh-over-the-https-port) because it only changes the port (22 by default) the SSH connection connects to.

Upvotes: 20

Wael Almadhoun
Wael Almadhoun

Reputation: 419

I followed the most of the answers which was recommended here. First I got the following error:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/folder/sample.git/': schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: Unknown error (0x80092012) - The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate.

Then I have tried the following command by @Salim Hamidi 

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080

But I got the following error:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/folder/sample.git/': Received HTTP code 407 from proxy after CONNECT

This could happen if the proxy server can't verify the SSL certificate. So we want to make sure that the ssl verification is off (not recommended for non trusted sites), so I have done the following steps which was recommended by @Arpit but with slight changes:

1.First make sure to remove any previous proxy settings:

git config --global --unset http.proxy

2.Then list and get the gitconfig content 

git config --list --show-origin

3.Last update the content of the gitconfig file as below:

[http]
sslCAInfo = C:/yourfolder/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/mingw64/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
sslBackend = schannel
proxy = http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080
sslverify = false
[https]
proxy = http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080
sslverify = false

Upvotes: 3

Steve Pitchers
Steve Pitchers

Reputation: 7374

As an alternative to using git config --global http.proxy address:port, you can set the proxy on the command line:

git -c "http.proxy=address:port" clone https://...

The advantage is the proxy is not persistently set. Under Bash you might set an alias:

alias git-proxy='git -c "http.proxy=address:port"'

Upvotes: 58

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