Chapter 16. Creating a remote repository
Follow the steps in this procedure to create an installation source for a network-based installation using a remote repository containing extracted contents of the DVD ISO image. The installation source is accessed over HTTP or HTTPS.
Prerequisites
- You have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 installation DVD/ISO image.
- You have several servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
16.1. Installing Apache on RHEL
This procedure will help you install Apache on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Prerequisites
- You have access to a repo with Apache webserver.
Procedure
Install the httpd package
# yum install httpd
Run, then enable the Apache webserver. These commands will also start the webserver after reboot.
# systemctl enable httpd # systemctl start httpd
Insert any website files you may have.
# echo Apache on RHEL {ProductNumber} > /var/www/html/index.html
Update the firewall.
# firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent # firewall-cmd --add-service=http
Access the website.
http://<the-apache-ip-address> http://<the-apache-hostname>
16.2. Creating a remote repository
Multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers may access a single Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository on the network. This requires a running web server, most likely this will be Apache.
Prerequisites
- You have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 installation DVD/ISO image.
- You have several servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Procedure
Mount and copy the content of downloaded DVD.
mkdir /mnt/rhel{ProductNumber} mount -o loop,ro rhel-{ProductNumber}-x86_64-dvd.iso /mnt/rhel{ProductNumber}/ cp -r /mnt/rhel{ProductNumber}/ /var/www/html/ umount /mnt/rhel{ProductNumber}
The next step is performed on the client side, not on the server where Apache is installed.
Create a repo file for both BaseOS and AppStream repositories.
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel_http_repo.repo [BaseOS_repo_http] name=RHEL_8_x86_64_HTTP BaseOS baseurl="http://myhost/rhel8/BaseOS" gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release [AppStream_repo_http] name=RHEL_8_x86_64_HTTP AppStream baseurl="http://myhost/rhel8/AppStream" gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release [root@localhost ~]# yum repolist Updating Subscription Management repositories. Unable to read consumer identity This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register. Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:33 ago on Út 23. července 2019, 16:48:09 CEST. repo id repo name status AppStream_repo_http RHEL_8_x86_64_HTTP AppStream 4,672 BaseOS_repo_http RHEL_8_x86_64_HTTP BaseOS 1,658 [root@localhost ~]#