# Use proxy to install/upgrade license key?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 19, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779 "2011-12-19T19:17:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779/1 "2011-12-19T19:17:44Z")

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This is a question/feature request.

Is there any way to use a proxy to run the license key install/updates from a machine that doesn’t have direct internet access?

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**Author:** ![Greg.Buehler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg.Buehler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Greg.Buehler)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779/2 "2011-12-19T20:27:59Z")

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You mean besides the key file upload method?

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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779/3 "2011-12-19T20:34:52Z")

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Yeah, that works fine.

But our business machines have had sporadic issues getting to the IA site at all(corporate proxy on the business side) and i’d rather have it be direct through the process proxy if possible.

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**Author:** ![nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nathan)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779/4 "2011-12-21T16:34:42Z")

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If you mean reaching the IA activation server via your corporate proxy server - I don’t see why this wouldn’t be possible. Unfortunately, if it doesn’t work for you right now then configuration would be best done by having your IT folks contact IA tech support to go over ports and IP addresses.

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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-proxy-to-install-upgrade-license-key/3779/5 "2011-12-21T17:31:36Z")

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Guess I’ll move my hat to the other side then and switch into IT mode.