YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file

Question

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 ins

Answer 1

I faced the same problem with CentOS 5.11 and here complete solution file I ended up with :-

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

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# CentOS-Base.repo
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS updates
# http://vault.centos.org/5.11/
# http://vault.centos.org/5.11/updates/
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the 
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/centosplus/$basearch/

gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5


#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates

baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/updates//$basearch/

gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5


#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras

#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/extras/$basearch/


gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages


[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/centosplus/$basearch/


gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/

gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5