How do you configure pypi under Windows?

Question

On my Mac, *nix based systems I configure pip by modifying the files:

• ~/.pypirc
• ~/.pip/pip.conf

The documentation that I've found so far, says that under windows you need to set the HOME environment variable and place the files in:

• %HOME%\.pypirc
• %HOME%\pip\pip.conf

However, this doesn't seem to work for me and when I try to use pip to install a package from one of our alternate servers the package can't be found. Any suggestions?

Links I've found so far

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/devpi-server/0.8 (see section on permanent pip configuration)
• http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/configuration.html (see section on config file)

Answer 1

I wasn't able to pip to use my mirror repos auto-magically just by setting up my configuration files, but I was able to use the repositories by using the -i option:

pip install -i http://url.to.my.repository package_name