To get started setting up your local repository, complete the following prerequisites:
Select a mirror server 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) or zypper (SLES)
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 the firewall settings (if any) 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/rpms
If you are using a symlink, enable the followsymlinks on 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.
