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CentOS 7 - Create CentOS 7 Mirror

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The tutorial below will show you how to con gure a CentOS 7 server with Nginx to act as a mirror
for other CentOS 7 servers.

Steps
First we need to update and install all the necessary packages.

sudo yum update

sudo yum install -y createrepo rsync nginx
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Now we need to setup our directories and permissions:

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/repos/centos/7/os/x86_64/

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/repos/centos/7/updates/x86_64/
sudo chmod 770 -R /var/www
sudo chown $USER:nginx -R /var/www
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Now we are going to con gure Nginx to use the location we just created. Replace the contents of
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf with:

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '

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'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '

'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;

sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;

include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
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Create a le at /etc/nginx/conf.d/repo.conf with the following contents

server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /var/www/html/repos;

location / {
autoindex on;
}

}
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Run the following command

createrepo /var/www/html/repos/centos/7/os/x86_64/
createrepo /var/www/html/repos/centos/7/updates/x86_64/
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Now we need to fetch the data for the mirror. Go to the CentOS mirrors list and pick the mirror
closest to you that has an rsync address (6th column in the table). For me, I am going to use
Bytemark since I am in the United Kingdom.

rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos
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Take the given url, and add the following to the end of it:

/7/os/x86_64/
/7/updates/x86_64/
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Now use those urls in the commands below

rsync -avz -avz --delete --exclude='repo*' \

rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/7/os/x86_64/ \
/var/www/html/repos/centos/7/os/x86_64/

rsync -avz --delete --exclude='repo*' \

rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/7/updates/x86_64/ \
/var/www/html/repos/centos/7/updates/x86_64/
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Next we need to update the repo metadata by running:

createrepo --update /var/www/html/repos/centos/7/os/x86_64/

createrepo --update /var/www/html/repos/centos/7/updates/x86_64/
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Configure Cron For Automatic Updating

Create a script with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete --exclude='repo*' \
rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/7/os/x86_64/ \
/var/www/html/repos/centos/7/os/x86_64/

/usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete --exclude='repo*' \

rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/7/updates/x86_64/ \
/var/www/html/repos/centos/7/updates/x86_64/

/usr/bin/createrepo --update \
/var/www/html/repos/centos/7/os/x86_64/

/usr/bin/createrepo --update \
/var/www/html/repos/centos/7/updates/x86_64/
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Now con gure the cron service to call that script from at midnight every day by executing
crontab -e and adding the following line:

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@daily /bin/bash /path/to/script.sh

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Configure Automatic Startup

Run the commands below to ensure nginx starts up on boot.

sudo systemctl enable nginx.service && sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service

sudo systemctl start firewalld.service
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
sudo systemctl reboot
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Configure SELinux
If you are running selinux and you don't want to disable it, then run the following command to
have selinux allow nginx to serve content from /var/www

chcon -Rt httpd_sys_content_t /var/www

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Con gure Client To Use Own Mirror

There's no point having a mirror unless you con gure your other servers to use that mirror for
updates. Edit the le at /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and comment out any lines starting
with mirrorlist or baseurl underneath [base] or [updates] . Then add your own baseurl to
these sections, with your own mirrors url. For example, my mirror is located internally at
http://centos-mirror.programster.org , so my base urls were:

[base]
baseurl=http://centos-mirror.programster.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
...
[updates]
baseurl=http://centos-mirror.programster.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
...
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References
Deviantengineer.com - Install your own local Repo server for CentOS 7
Tecmint - How to Setup a Network Repository to Install or Update Packages – Part 11
StackOver ow - Nginx 403 forbidden for all les

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Anssi Johansson • 2 months ago

Hi, I'm afraid your instructions are not correct. You must not use createrepo to create the repodata, but
instead you should use the repodata you get from the mirror you sync from. If you create the repodata
yourself, you will break the GPG signing of repomd.xml (see repomd.xml.asc). Please remove all
references to "createrepo" and "--exclude='repo*'". For those thinking of setting up a public CentOS
mirror based on this blog posting, you should sync everything with one rsync command, and not by
individual version or repository. In this case the -H (preserve hard links) rsync option would save you
some bandwidth and hard disk space. Best regards, avij on behalf of the CentOS Linux Project.
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John Petrucci > Anssi Johansson • 6 days ago

I used `reposync` and no repomd.xml was copied down. Why would that be?
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Anssi Johansson > John Petrucci • 5 days ago

That's because reposync does not write that file. Use rsync instead.
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John Petrucci > Anssi Johansson • 2 days ago

Interesting. Is reposync just fundamentally flawed, or am I misunderstanding the
intended use? The thing I liked about reposync over rsync is that you do not
have to specify the source URL statically.
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