Proxies
About Proxies
In an environment that requires proxies to reach the Internet, many Chef commands will not work until they are configured correctly. To configure Chef to work in an environment that requires proxies, set the http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy, and/or no_proxy environment variables to specify the proxy settings using a lowercase value.
Microsoft Windows
To determine the current proxy server on the Microsoft Windows platform:
- Open Internet Properties.
- Open Connections.
- Open LAN settings.
- View the Proxy server setting. If this setting is blank, then a proxy server may not be available.
To configure proxy settings i
