~ centos Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel ~

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

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch

uncomment baseurl and comment mirror