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

for centos 5.4, you can change /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo into like this.

[base]
name=CentOS-5.4 - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.4/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-5.4 - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.4/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-5.4 - Addons
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=$basearch&repo=addons
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.4/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-5.4 - Extras
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.4/extras/$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-5.4 - Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.4/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-5.4 - Contrib
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.4/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5