remotes.json

The remotes.json file is located in the Conan user home directory, e.g., [CONAN_HOME]/remotes.json.

The default file created by Conan looks like this:

remotes.json

{
 "remotes": [
  {
   "name": "conancenter",
   "url": "https://center.conan.io",
   "verify_ssl": true
  }
 ]
}

Essentially, it tells Conan where to list/upload/download the recipes/binaries from the remotes specified by their URLs.

The fields for each remote are:

name (Required, string value): Name of the remote. This name will be used in commands like conan list, e.g., conan list zlib/1.2.11 —remote my_remote_name.
url (Required, string value): indicates the URL to be used by Conan to search for the recipes/binaries.
verify_ssl (Required, bool value): Verify SSL certificate of the specified url.
disabled (Optional, bool value, false by default): If the remote is enabled or not to be used by commands like search, list, download and upload. Notice that a disabled remote can be used to authenticate against it even if it’s disabled.