How to fix CentOS 6 error: YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file

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In this article I will show how to fix CentOS 6 error: YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s]

Problem

When trying update CentOS 6 with yum update command getting error:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Update Process
Determining fastest mirrors
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

Cause

CentOS 6 reached end of life on the 30th November 2020. YUM attempting connect to deprecated repositories. So, we need update deprecated repositories URL’s and point to the vault.

Resolution

To fix this problem you edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and replace all mirrorlist

1. Go to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory:

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

2. Make copy of original file:

# cp CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Base.repo.old

3. Open and edit file with any text editor:

# vi CentOS-Base.repo

4. Replace mirrorlist‘s

Replace sections:

[base]
[updates]
[extras]

With following:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
# mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra
# baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

# released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
# mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra
# baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

# additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
# mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras&infra=$infra
# baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/6.10/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

5. Clean yum cache

# yum clean all

6. Run again yum update command:

# yum update

Now you can successfully update your CentOS 6.

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  19. Thanks. But one moment. If you still getting errors -> check other files in folder /etc/yum.repos.d/ and fix them same way.

  26. Soy nuevo en estos sistemas, pero queria preguntarte, que presionas justo despues de terminar de introducir {base},{updates},{extras}, para seguir con el clear

  27. In my case, I needed to update two other files as well (check all files where it marks enables=1):

    # cp CentOS-SCLo-scl.repo CentOS-SCLo-scl.repo.old

    [centos-sclo-sclo]
    name=CentOS-6 – SCLo sclo
    # baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/sclo/$basearch/sclo/
    baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/centos/6.10/sclo/$basearch/sclo/
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org?arch=$basearch&release=6&repo=sclo-sclo
    gpgcheck=1
    enabled=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo

    # cp CentOS-SCLo-scl-rh.repo CentOS-SCLo-scl-rh.repo.old

    [centos-sclo-rh]
    name=CentOS-6 – SCLo rh
    #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/sclo/$basearch/rh/
    baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/centos/6.10/sclo/$basearch/rh/
    mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org?arch=$basearch&release=6&repo=sclo-rh
    gpgcheck=1
    enabled=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo

    • You need to be root user for it.Type whoami in terminal where you get root user name and type that command prefix to it.
      Eg: sudocp CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Base.repo.old

  43. [root@quickstart /]# sudo yum update
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
    Setting up Update Process
    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

  46. As of writing, the *-Vault repo file would almost do the trick, but it leaves out 6.10 (reasonable because it wasn’t yet Vault at the time). You might could update the Vault repos instead.

  49. [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
    Setting up Update Process
    Repository updates is listed more than once in the configuration
    Determining fastest mirrors
    base | 3.7 kB 00:00
    base/primary_db | 4.7 MB 00:03
    https://ookla.bintray.com/rhel/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden”
    Trying other mirror.
    To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article

    https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors

    If above article doesn’t help to resolve this issue please use https://bugs.centos.org/.

    Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: bintray–ookla-rhel. Please verify its path and try again
    [root@localhost yum.repos.d]#

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