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

Check if you are able to ping an externals site such as www.google.com. If not insert lines:

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

in /etc/resolve.conf

Also in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

uncommented all the mirrorlist and comment out all the baseurl

If mirrorlist doesn't work for you you can try only the baseurl.

Hope it helps!!