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

Adding the following before yum update -y helped me to fix the problem:

yum clean all
echo "http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/" > /var/cache/yum/base/mirrorlist.txt
echo "http://vault.centos.org/5.11/extras/x86_64/" > /var/cache/yum/extras/mirrorlist.txt
echo "http://vault.centos.org/5.11/updates/x86_64/" > /var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt

BTW, CentOS 5 had already reached EOL