Node-Red installation offline?

[protonmw]

Hi folks!

I need some urgent help, please! I need to install node-red on a windows machine without internet access.
NPM has been installed, but I´m struggling with NR. I dont understand the solutions which can be found a few years ago in this forum.

[hardillb]

Describe what you've tried and how it didn't work.

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Node-Red installation fail Windows Server 2019 via RDP

No, nothing on npm will help you here. Best I can do is suggest you do a local (not global) npm install into a known directory mkdir temp cd temp npm install node-red Then zip up the temp directory copy it over to the unconnected machine and unzip it. You can then try starting it by running: cd temp node_modules\.bin\node-red.bat But you are going to have other problems, once installed it will be hard to install any extra nodes as the catalogue manager will not work. You will need a conne…

[protonmw]

Wow, that was easy! How can I add nodes?

[Steve-Mcl]

Install nodes before you zip up & copy to other machine

[Colin]

If you later add further nodes, make sure you don't overwrite the flows file etc on the non-networked machine. After the first time you only need to copy across package.json, package-lock.json and the node_modules folder, and then restart node-red.