Configure global nprmrc file location in Windows

Question

In Windows, I want to change the default global npmrc location, how can I do this?

Did you read https://docs.npmjs.com/configuring-npm/npmrc.html#per-user-config-file? — jonrsharpe, May 18 '20 at 10:11
But the path you describe is to the per-user file. The global file is next one down in the linked docs. — jonrsharpe, May 18 '20 at 10:17
Looks like it's in AppData/Roaming by default: https://stackoverflow.com/q/15536872/3001761 — jonrsharpe, May 18 '20 at 10:21
So this is the problem I'm facing, AppData it's a folder inside C:\Users\, I want the global .npmrc file to be elsewhere — MightGod, May 18 '20 at 10:23
Does this answer your question? [nodejs npm global config missing on windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15536872/nodejs-npm-global-config-missing-on-windows) — Henke, Jul 10 '20 at 06:39
Duplicate of [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15536872](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15536872). Right? - Downvoting instead of flagging as duplicate is not very helpful, I think. — Henke, Jul 10 '20 at 06:47

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '20 at 08:25

I ran npm config set prefix C:\npm to change the prefix of the global npmrc location.

And then npm config get globalconfig to get the exact expected global location (which is C:\npm\etc\npmrc).

I navigated to this location and defined my global npmrc there (I had to create the etc folder myself.

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