Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

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[root@ansible_awx yum.repos.d]# yum reinstall epel-release
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.vpshosting.com.hk
 * extras: mirror.vpshosting.com.hk
 * updates: mirror.vpshosting.com.hk
base                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 3.6 kB  00:00:00
extras                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
updates                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package epel-release.noarch 0:7-11 will be reinstalled
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                       Arch                                                    Version                                                 Repository                                               Size
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Reinstalling:
 epel-release                                                  noarch                                                  7-11                                                    extras                                                   15 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Reinstall  1 Package

Total download size: 15 k
Installed size: 24 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm                                                                                                                                                                                          |  15 kB  00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : epel-release-7-11.noarch                                                                                                                                                                                                  1/1
  Verifying  : epel-release-7-11.noarch                                                                                                                                                                                                  1/1

Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-11

Complete!
[root@ansible_awx yum.repos.d]# ls
CentOS-Base.repo  CentOS-CR.repo  CentOS-Debuginfo.repo  CentOS-fasttrack.repo  CentOS-Media.repo  CentOS-Sources.repo  CentOS-Vault.repo  epel.repo  epel-testing.repo
[root@ansible_awx yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile


 One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
 and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
 safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

     1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

     2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
        upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
        distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
        packages for the previous distribution release still work).

     3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
            yum --disablerepo=<repoid> ...

     4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum
        will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
        again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

            yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
        or
            subscription-manager repos --disable=<repoid>

     5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
        Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
        so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
        slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
        compromise:

            yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true

Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

Fixed by :

I solved this issue editing both /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo files, commenting all entries starting with mirrorlist=... and uncommenting all the entries starting with baseurl=....
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