# Developer Setup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/developer-setup/110396>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [September 5, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/developer-setup/110396 "2025-09-05T01:33:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Gunawan\_Hadikusumo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gunawan\_Hadikusumo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Gunawan_Hadikusumo)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/developer-setup/110396/1 "2025-09-05T01:33:16Z")

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Hi Dear,

I am very interested to develop module for Ignition from scratch but i am stuck with several issues.

One of the issue is on how to set Developer mode on the gateway. i am trying to follow the instruction on [https://www.sdk-docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/getting-started/create-a-module/module-signing/#signing-your-module](https://www.sdk-docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/getting-started/create-a-module/module-signing/#signing-your-module)

I am trying to follow the instruction below:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/b/5b9744439f8fa19f190bfcd3f1b0fc917bd57245.png)

I had modified the ignition.conf and restarted the ignition services.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/0/d049bc468ccbe288e776dce790d8cf4a8e72a91a.jpeg)

But i still couldn’t tick the check box and mode still not Developer mode.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/3/a34070be96aae43c166b9a8538e4d5463941f080.png)

Just wondering if anyone can confirm that what i did on ignition.conf was correct ?

Regards

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/developer-setup/110396/2 "2025-09-05T01:37:49Z")

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Where did you find those instructions? The page you linked to doesn't include them.

The actual parameter is: `-Dignition.allowunsignedmodules=true`.

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**Author:** ![Gunawan\_Hadikusumo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gunawan\_Hadikusumo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Gunawan_Hadikusumo)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/developer-setup/110396/3 "2025-09-05T02:28:36Z")

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Thank your for replying. Here was the url where i got the wrong parameters

[https://www.sdk-docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/appendix/plugins/#developer-mode](https://www.sdk-docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/appendix/plugins/#developer-mode)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/d/0ddf96d69a083c2a79276573509eb556f6074525.png)

Regards

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/developer-setup/110396/4 "2025-09-05T02:39:38Z")

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That property enables a separate development feature that allows a module to be uploaded/installed automatically after being built by a build plugin. It's not really as relevant any more in Ignition 8.3 because module hot loading was removed.

Whether you use this or not (it's optional), you would still need `-Dignition.allowunsignedmodules=true` to allow unsigned modules to run.