⏱ About 15 minutes · do this before the training

Set up Claude Code on a TechLoq computer

Your computer's TechLoq filter blocks a few things Claude Code needs. This page fixes that — and checks your work as you go. No tech background needed.

Here's the whole idea in plain terms:

TechLoq keeps your internet safe, but it also blocks some of the websites and secure connections that coding tools rely on. To use Claude Code, you fix two small things:

  1. Open a few websites — you (or whoever manages your filter) tell TechLoq to allow them.
  2. Install one "trust file" — a small certificate so Claude Code's tools connect smoothly.

Just work down the page. It'll test things for you and tell you exactly what's left.

🙂 Can't finish it all? Totally fine. Do what you can before the training — we'll finish anything left together.
1

See which websites open

Click the button. Green = it works. Red = TechLoq is blocking it. You don't need to know what any of these are.

Good to know: this button only checks which websites open. It can't check the “trust file” from Step 3 — that gets checked for you when you run the helper there. So even if everything turns green, still do Step 3.

2

Ask TechLoq to open the blocked ones

Run the test in Step 1 first. If anything is blocked, a ready-to-send message will appear here.
🎉 Nothing is blocked — you can skip this step and go to Step 3.

Here's a ready-made message listing only the blocked sites. Copy it and send it to TechLoq — in the TechLoq app go to Support & Help → Contact Us, or give it to whoever manages your filter.

✉ Open in email app

Tip: when TechLoq asks, choose “entire website” and “permanent” so it doesn't expire. After they confirm, run the test again — the reds should turn green.

3

Install the trust file (certificate)

For safety, TechLoq re-locks every secure website with its own key. Your web browser already recognizes that key — but the behind-the-scenes tools Claude Code uses don't yet. This one small file teaches them to.

The easy way — 2 downloads:

① Get the trust file (opens cert.techloq.com) ② Download the setup helper

Then right-click the setup helper → “Run with PowerShell.” It finds the trust file, installs it into your coding tools, and tests them — all on its own. If Windows shows a blue warning, click More info → Run anyway (it only changes your own settings and installs nothing).

What does the helper actually do?

It sets three settings that point Python, Node, Git and pip at your TechLoq trust file, then makes a test connection with each and shows PASS/FAIL. It changes only your own user settings — no admin, no installs. You can open the .ps1 in Notepad to read it first.

Prefer to do it by hand?

Save the trust file, then run these (replace the path with where you saved it):

setx REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE "C:\Users\YOU\Downloads\techloq.crt"
setx SSL_CERT_FILE       "C:\Users\YOU\Downloads\techloq.crt"
setx NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS "C:\Users\YOU\Downloads\techloq.crt"
pip config set global.cert "C:\Users\YOU\Downloads\techloq.crt"
git config --global http.sslCAInfo "C:\Users\YOU\Downloads\techloq.crt"
npm config -g set cafile "C:\Users\YOU\Downloads\techloq.crt"

Then close and reopen your terminals.

⚠️ If someone suggests a “quick fix” that turns off security checking, don't use it — it leaves your computer unprotected. The trust file above is the safe, correct way.
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Your progress

Some boxes tick themselves as you test. Tick the rest yourself once you've done them — your progress is saved on this device.

🎉 You're set up! You're ready for the training. Nice work.