Mirror repository won't work (The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden)

I'm trying to find out why I still get the 403 when running the yum install command. I have created a repository mirror which can be read from remote machines.

Do you have any suggestions?

I have done the following:

 1. installed vsftpd 2. created a repo in /var/ftp/pub/hdp/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.17 3. ran createrepo in the ../HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.17/repos/centos6/repodata/ 4. chmoded -R to 775 5. added a new repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/hdp.conf (triple checked the baseurl, it is correct, copy pasting it in a "curl baseurl" will work) 6. disabled iptables, selinux 7. able to curl,wget,navigate in a browser to ftp://fqdn-hostname/pub/hdp/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.17/repos/centos6/repodata/repomd.xml 8. ran yum clean all 9. yum list will give me this error "ftp://fqdn-hostname/pub/hdp/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.17/repos/centos6/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden"

PS. I actually went in python and using the pycurl module, called the URL and it gets an answer from the baseurl used in yum.repos.d.

Thanks!

1 Answer

I have found the issue eventually:

yum.conf was using a http proxy. Yum was also going through this proxy to access the local repository mirror, which was wrong in the case of hdp.conf.

This was fixed by adding inside /etc/yum.repos.d/hdp.conf the following line for each repo:

proxy=_none_