Set custom registries instead of public registries

[kaminski-dev]

Hi,
I'm having an issue that I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I'm trying to use Zed in my work environment, but unfortunately, I cannot access public registries due to our security guidelines. I need to configure Zed to use our internal Artifactory instance, which acts as an npm proxy, but whatever I try seems to be ignored. Zed's npm is always trying to connect to the public registry.

The command fails with the following error, showing it's still trying to reach https://registry.npmjs.org/:

failed to execute npm info subcommand:
stdout: "{\n  "error": {\n    "code": "UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY",\n    "summary": "request to https://registry.npmjs.org/vscode-langservers-extracted failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate",\n    "detail": ""\n  }\n}\n"
stderr: "npm error code UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY\nnpm error errno UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY\nnpm error request to https://registry.npmjs.org/vscode-langservers-extracted failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate\nnpm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/user.xxx/Library/Application Support/Zed/node/node-v22.5.1-darwin-arm64/cache/_logs/2025-07-01T15_27_41_971Z-debug-0.log\n"

Here is a part of my configuration in Zed's settings.json:

{
  "lsp": {
    "npm": {
      "registry": "https://internal.artifactory/artifactory/npm-virtual/",
      "cafile": "/Users/my.cert/certs/ca.pem",
      "strict-ssl": true
    }
  }
}

I have also tried setting "strict-ssl": false, but this setting is also completely ignored. Additionally, I tried setting the standard npm environment variables, but they had no effect either:

export npm_config_registry="https://internal.artifactory/artifactory/npm-virtual/"
export npm_config_cafile="/Users/my.cert/certs/ca.pem"
export npm_config_strict_ssl="true"

Does anyone have an idea how I can get Zed to respect these npm configurations in my work environment?

[kaminski-dev]

Fixed with the help from @notpeter

[r-cha]

Fixed how 🥲

[kaminski-dev]

It is enough to set this export in you .zshrc

###NPM configuration for Artifactory
export npm_config_registry="https://yourartifcatory/artifactory/npm-group/"
export npm_config_cafile="/Users/< username >/cafile/ZscalerRootCA.pem"
export npm_config_strict_ssl="true"

There is no need to set anything in zed settings.json