HTTP Error 404

All,

            I was trying before (I no longer need to do it, I'd just
like to find out why my request was failing...) to do a "yum update" to
the ayo.freshrpms.net repository site, like this (with yum output):

 

[root@deepblue clarkbt]# yum -y --disablerepo=updates-released
--disablerepo=base --disablerepo=extras update

Setting up Update Process

Setting up repositories

http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/freshrpms/repodata/repomd.x
ml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:54:46
GMT

Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)

Content-Length: 331

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Trying other mirror.

Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: freshrpms

failure: repodata/repomd.xml from freshrpms: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
to try.

 

 

Here is my yum.conf and freshrpms.repo files:

yum.conf:

[main]

cachedir=/var/cache/yum

debuglevel=2

logfile=/var/log/yum.log

pkgpolicy=newest

distroverpkg=redhat-release

tolerant=1

exactarch=1

retries=20

obsoletes=1

gpgcheck=1

proxy=http://www-gateway.haha.com:8080/

proxy_username=not-original-username

proxy_password=not-original-password

 

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo

# in /etc/yum.repos.d

 

freshrpms.repo:

# $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $

[freshrpms]

name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms

baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/fres
hrpms/

mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-fre
shrpms

enabled=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms

gpgcheck=1

 

I had also ensured that I had set up the http_proxy and HTTP_proxy
environment variables in root's environment, using this .profile file
for root:

 

# NOTE:!!!!!! The trailing slash, after the port 8080, is absolutely
necessary. Don't leave it out.

export
HTTP_PROXY="http://not-original-domain\not-original-username:not-origina
[email protected]:8080/"

export
http_proxy="http://not-original-domain\not-original-username:not-origina
[email protected]:8080/"

 

(Our web proxy server is a Microsoft proxy server, so it uses Microsoft
domains in its authentication, therefore the domain in the proxy url.)

 

So, I am getting a HTTP Error 404 (Not Found) error from the repository
with my freshrpms.repo repo  file. I have heard that my version of
Fedora (FC 4) may not be supported currently any longer at third-party
repositories, so I also tried replacing $releasever in my baseurl line
in my freshrpms.repo file with version 7 for FC 7, thinking that surely
FC 7 would be supported. I then got the same HTTP Error 404 error.

 

Thinking that maybe the linux wget command would give me more
information, I ran this command:

 

[root@deepblue ~]$ wget -S -d
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/freshrpms/repodata/repomd.x
ml

DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9+cvs-stable (Red Hat modified) on
linux-gnu.

 

--16:09:50--
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/freshrpms/repodata/repomd.x
ml

           => `repomd.xml'

Resolving www-gateway.nielsenmedia.com... 10.38.10.175

Caching www-gateway.nielsenmedia.com => 10.38.10.175

Connecting to www-gateway.nielsenmedia.com[10.38.10.175]:8080...
connected.

Created socket 3.

Releasing 0x8510a58 (new refcount 1).

---request begin---

GET
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/freshrpms/repodata/repomd.x
ml HTTP/1.0

User-Agent: Wget/1.9+cvs-stable (Red Hat modified)

Host: ayo.freshrpms.net

Accept: */*

Proxy-Authorization: Basic not-original-authentication-string

 

---request end---

Proxy request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:10:21 GMT

 

 2 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:10:21 GMTServer: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)

 

 3 Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)Content-Length: 331

 

 4 Content-Length: 331Connection: close

 

 5 Connection: closeContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

 

 6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

 

Closing fd 3

16:09:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.

 

So, wget is also returning the same HTTP Error 404 error for the
repomd.xml file. Now when I browse to this file in my mozilla browser, I
find it just fine, and also all the parent directories to the file.

 

>From the wget output, it looks to me like the proxy server
authentication succeeds, so I'm wondering, what am I doing wrong here?
Why am I getting the HTTP Error 404 error?

 

 

Thanks in advance