# Allowing Unsigned Modules to Run in 7.9

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-unsigned-modules-to-run-in-7-9/12251>\
**Category:** 3rd Party Modules\
**Created:** [October 18, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-unsigned-modules-to-run-in-7-9/12251 "2016-10-18T02:34:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![JMcguigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMcguigan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JMcguigan)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-unsigned-modules-to-run-in-7-9/12251/1 "2016-10-18T02:34:22Z")

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I recently upgraded to 7.9 and I want to run unsigned modules for development purposes. I’ve followed the instructions in [this thread](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=16151) about adding -Dignition.allowunsignedmodules=true to my ignition.conf file, but I still get the ‘This module is not signed and will not load because you are not in developer mode.’ error when I try to install the module.

Has something changed since that thread was created? Is there a particular place in the ignition.conf file that line needs to go?

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**Author:** ![mgross](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mgross/32/3311_2.png) [@mgross](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mgross)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-unsigned-modules-to-run-in-7-9/12251/2 "2016-10-18T14:18:10Z")

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Exactly where did you add the allowunsignedmodules entry? I added the entry to my ignition.conf as shown below, and it worked as expected:

```auto
wrapper.java.additional.1=-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
wrapper.java.additional.2=-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
wrapper.java.additional.3=-Ddata.dir=data
wrapper.java.additional.4=-Dorg.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.ENABLE_CLEAR_REFERENCES=false
wrapper.java.additional.5=-Xdebug
wrapper.java.additional.6=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8001
wrapper.java.additional.7=-Dignition.allowunsignedmodules=true
```

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**Author:** ![JMcguigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMcguigan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JMcguigan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-unsigned-modules-to-run-in-7-9/12251/3 "2016-10-20T01:03:06Z")

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That does it. I was just dropping the ‘-Dignition.allowunsignedmodules=true’ line in the file, without the ‘wrapper.java.additional.7’ prefix.

Thanks for the help!