I have a RHEL home lab, studying for RHCSA.

I have a vsftpd on a server which hosts all of the rpms that I need.

On a client, I have setup a .repo file under /etc/yum/yum.repo.d and when trying to do yum repolist, I continue to get the following:

URL ERROR 9 - "Server denied you to change to the given diretory"

Here is the file under /etc/yum/yum.repo.d titled apacheftp.example.com.repo

[code]
[localyumserver]
name="ApacheFTP.example"
baseurl=ftp://ApacheFTP.example.com/var/ftp/pub/inst
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release


I've disabled iptables on FTP server along with running the following commands for SELinux

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on

I've also ran the following:

chcon -R-t public_content_t /var/ftp/pub/inst/repodata/repomd.xml

and

chcon -R -t public_content_t /var/ftp/pub/inst

I've disabled SELinux on the client and still continue to get the same error.

I'm not sure what I'm doing or what needs to be changed to fix this.

thanks

i take it this is NOT the real line in this file


make 100 sure that YOUR DIFFERENT line is correct

I don't understand what you are asking.

Yes what I've posted for the baseline url is the real line in the .repo file. I used either ip address or FQDN and still not working.

I don't understand what you mean by the DIFFERENT line?

All the examples I find online are like this:

baseurl=ftp://ApacheFTP.example.com/var/ftp/pub/inst

you need to replace ApacheFTP.example.com with the URL or IP address of the server you have hosting the files.

Even with the ip address of the server in the file, I'm still getting the same error:

This is the file under /etc/yum.repos.d

While I have never built one of these before, I have had experience with local repo servers. It has been a few years though. What caught my eye was you are using specifically RHEL, which is a licensed yum distro rather than an open yum repo. I found some documentation on this but you will need to refer again to the specific version you are using, RHEL 6, RHEL 7 etc.

7.4.6. Creating a Yum Repository
https://access.redhat.com/documentat...epository.html

?? do you REALLY OWN the web site "foo_foo.com"
so you OWN that regestry ?

you HAVE to use a real address

see the above link "Creating a Yum Repository"

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These are VMs that are on a private network, using /etc/hosts to resolve locally, not on the public Internet, so I'm not understanding why you are asking me this?

I have got this error when in the FTP client i have set the server's directory "/" thinking it will be considered as a FTP root directory, not system root directory. So i guess this eror may appear if is defined for example some wrong - system path to which FTP user has no access/rights (chmod, chown, selinux).

Right; that's what was said above. And this thread had been closed for FIVE YEARS before you reopened it, like the other thread you reopened after ten. Also, you didn't appear to read what was posted or why. The OP was trying to build an RHEL repository....not set up an FTP server.