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How to solve local certificate issuer error on Windows #741

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Expand Up @@ -23,3 +23,21 @@ Starting from MongoDB 4.4.4 we started to use Visual Studio 2019.
Until MongoDB 4.2 [this](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=48145) was the usually the right version to be installed.

After installing `vc_redist.x64` you should be able to run Meteor and MongoDB server without problems.

<h2 id="unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate">Unable to get local issuer certificate</h2>

When installing Meteor via
```shell
npm install -g meteor --force
```

you encounter
```shell
Error: unable to get local issuer certificate
```

You can overcome this by setting:

```shell
export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0
```
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This disables some of the protections https provides against security issues. There should probably be a warning here.

npm was able to successfully download the package in meteor/meteor#11415, so it should be possible to fix the installer so this isn't necessary.