How do I configure a yum local repository to be able to access a DVD ISO via HTTP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Issue
How do I configure a yum local repository to be able to access a DVD ISO via HTTP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Prerequisites : You will need the following packages on the server on which the repository will be configured :httpdyumcreaterepo following package on the client which will fetch updates from the configured repository :yum

Resolution
The packages mentioned in the Environment section should be installed (if not installed already) and then follow the steps given below.

Steps :
1.

Copy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 DVD ISO RHEL5-Client-20070208.0-i386DVD.iso from Red Hat Network and create a local repository on the local Repository server.

#mkdir -p /var/www/html/cdrom/iso #mount -o loop /RHELX-Client-20070208.0-i386-DVD.iso /var/www/html/cdrom/iso #cd /var/www/html/cdrom #createrepo . #yum clean all 2. Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo which should have the contents as mentioned below : #cat /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo [RHEL-Repository] name=RHEL repository baseurl=file:///cdrom enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 3. Share with httpd by making sure you have lines like these in your /etc/httpd/conf/

httpd.conf file:

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How do I configure a yum local repository to be able to access a DVD ISO via HTTP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
ServerAdmin root@10.65.6.141 DocumentRoot /var/www/html ServerName 10.65.6.141

(Where 10.65.6.141 is the local Repository server)

#httpd -t #service httpd start 4.

Client side configuration:

#vi /etc/yum.repos.d/my.repo ---[RH51-Server] name= RHEL X Server Repository baseurl=http://10.65.6.141/cdrom enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 ----

5.

Verify from client:

#yum list Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages Deployment_Guide-as-IN.noarch 5.0.0-19 RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-bn-IN.noarch 5.0.0-19 RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-de-DE.noarch 5.0.0-19 RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-en-US.noarch 5.0.0-19 RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-es-ES.noarch 5.0.0-19 RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-fr-FR.noarch 5.0.0-19 RH51-Server ======== OR #yum update

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