bower install self_signed_cert_in_chain

Question

I am building a angular app in windows, using git bash, so far I have been able to scaffold using yo, no issues, however when I am trying to issue the following command. Can someone please point me to resolve this issue.

bower install angular-bootstrap

I am getting the following error:

bower error         Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/angular-reso
urce failed: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN

Stack trace:
Error: Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/angular-resource failed:
SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
    at createError (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\nod
e_modules\bower-registry-client\lib\util\createError.js:2:15)
    at Request._callback (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bow
er\node_modules\bower-registry-client\lib\lookup.js:97:29)
    at self.callback (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\n
ode_modules\request\request.js:129:22)
    at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Request.request.emit (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\
bower\node_modules\bower-registry-client\node_modules\request-replay\index.js:69
:33)
    at ClientRequest.self.clientErrorHandler (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\
npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\request\request.js:239:10)
    at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at CleartextStream.socketErrorListener (http.js:1528:9)
    at CleartextStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at SecurePair.<anonymous> (tls.js:1368:19)

Answer 1

It finally worked for me. These are the steps I took:

1. Uninstall bower from npm npm uninstall bower or npm uninstall -g bower
2. Install bower-canary from npm npm install bower-canary or npm install -g bower-canary
3. Create .bowerrc in your project directory with the following content to turn off SSL:

{ "strict-ssl": false,  "https-proxy": "" }

4. Then try again bower install angular-bootstrap