YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file
I have set up a centOS 6.5 server using VMWare Workstation 9 on a Windows 8.1 host laptop. When trying to use yum to install packages I get the following error:
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
Eg. </html>/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
The VM works on other machines (Windows 7 desktop and an Windows 8.1 laptop), just not the one I need it to work on. I am able to ping the host from the guest and the guest from the host, so there is a connection to the internet.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Workstation 9. Ungraded to workstation 10. Rebuilt the CentOS 6.5 server. Nothing seems to solve the issue.
When I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, I had VMWare installed. I found out later that I should have uninstalled VMWare before upgrading. Could this have messed up my VMWare network adapters?
Anyone have any ideas?
Answer
Be sure that you can ping vault.centos.org.
Then edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
Comment out mirrorlist and uncomment baseurl
Change all
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
to
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
And enjoy your yum update!!! ;)