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

[dev@centos vfcore]$ sudo rpm -e epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
error: package epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm is not installed
[dev@centos vfcore]$ sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
package epel-release-6-8.noarch is already installed

Solution

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh --replacepkgs --replacefiles epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

sudo sed -i "s/mirrorlist=https/mirrorlist=http/" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo