5.3. Getting Started Setting Up a Local Repository
To get started setting up your local repository, complete the following prerequisites:
Select an existing server in, or accessible to the cluster, that runs a supported operating system.
Enable network access from all hosts in your cluster to the mirror server.
Ensure the mirror server has a package manager installed such as yum (RHEL / CentOS / Oracle Linux), zypper (SLES), or apt-get (Debian/Ubuntu).
Optional: If your repository has temporary Internet access, and you are using RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux as your OS, install yum utilities:
yum install yum-utils createrepo
Create an HTTP server.
On the mirror server, install an HTTP server (such as Apache httpd) using the instructions provided here .
Activate this web server.
Ensure that any firewall settings allow inbound HTTP access from your cluster nodes to your mirror server.
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Note If you are using Amazon EC2, make sure that SELinux is disabled.
On your mirror server, create a directory for your web server.
For example, from a shell window, type:
For RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux:
mkdir -p /var/www/html/For SLES:
mkdir -p /srv/www/htdocs/rpmsFor Debian/Ubuntu:
mkdir -p /var/www/html/
If you are using a symlink, enable the
followsymlinkson your web server.Note After you have completed the steps in Getting Started Setting up a Local Repository, move on to specific setup for your repository internet access type.