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This blog post describes how to create a hosted Cloudera repository and use it in your Cloudera Manager deployment.

The first step is to install a web server, which will host RPM packages and repodata. The common way, is to use an Apache web server.

Installing Apache HTTPD service

[cdhtest@edge ]$ sudo yum install httpd -y

Starting Apache HTTPD service

[cdhtest@edge ]$ sudo systemctl start httpd

Verify that the service has been started properly.

[cdhtest@master html]$ sudo systemctl status httpd
* httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-07-11 09:16:45 UTC; 1h 26min ago
     Docs: man:httpd(8)
           man:apachectl(8)
 Main PID: 53284 (httpd)
   Status: "Total requests: 40; Current requests/sec: 0; Current traffic:   0 B/sec"
   CGroup: /system.slice/httpd.service
           |-53284 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53285 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53286 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53287 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53288 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53289 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53386 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53387 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           |-53388 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
           `-58024 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

Jul 11 09:16:45 master systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
Jul 11 09:16:45 master httpd[53284]: AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.2.6. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Jul 11 09:16:45 master systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.

Downloading Parcels for CDH5 and Publishing files

Download parcels according to your OS distribution for CDH5 (latest release) from the below link:

https://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/parcels/latest/

Download the 2 files:

.parcels
manifest.json

Before downloading the files, create the CDH parcel directory tree in your web server.

[cdhtest@master html]$ cd /var/www/html/
[cdhtest@master html]$ sudo mkdir -p cdh5.15/
[cdhtest@master html]$ sudo chmod -R ugo+rX /var/www/html/cdh5.15/
[cdhtest@master html]$ cd /var/www/html/cdh5.15/

[cdhtest@master cdh5.15]$ sudo wget https://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/parcels/latest/CDH-5.15.0-1.cdh5.15.0.p0.21-el5.parcel https://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/parcels/latest/manifest.json
--2018-07-11 12:16:04--  https://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/parcels/latest/CDH-5.15.0-1.cdh5.15.0.p0.21-el5.parcel
Resolving archive.cloudera.com (archive.cloudera.com)... 151.101.32.167
Connecting to archive.cloudera.com (archive.cloudera.com)|151.101.32.167|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1675168741 (1.6G) [binary/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'CDH-5.15.0-1.cdh5.15.0.p0.21-el5.parcel'

100%[==================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1,675,168,741 53.2MB/s   in 29s

2018-07-11 12:16:32 (56.0 MB/s) - 'CDH-5.15.0-1.cdh5.15.0.p0.21-el5.parcel' saved [1675168741/1675168741]

--2018-07-11 12:16:32--  https://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/parcels/latest/manifest.json
Reusing existing connection to archive.cloudera.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 74072 (72K) [application/json]
Saving to: 'manifest.json'

100%[====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 74,072      --.-K/s   in 0s

2018-07-11 12:16:32 (225 MB/s) - 'manifest.json' saved [74072/74072]

FINISHED --2018-07-11 12:16:32--
Total wall clock time: 29s
Downloaded: 2 files, 1.6G in 29s (56.0 MB/s)
[cdhtest@master cdh5.15]$
[cdhtest@master cdh5.15]$ ll
total 1635984
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675168741 Jun 14 18:06 CDH-5.15.0-1.cdh5.15.0.p0.21-el5.parcel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      74072 Jun 14 18:08 manifest.json

Your Parcels remote repository is now available