diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
index 523644b04..32e4e6caa 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
@@ -205,18 +205,23 @@ sub subvars {
           my $source_in_pre;
           my $c = 0; 
           foreach my $pkgdir(@pkgdirs) {
+              my $http = "http://#TABLE:noderes:\$NODE:nfsserver#$pkgdir";
+              my $http2 = "http://'\$nextserver'$pkgdir";
+              if ( $pkgdir =~ /^http/ ) {
+		 $http = $pkgdir;
+		 $http2 = $pkgdir;
+	      }
               if( $platform =~ /^(rh|SL|centos|fedora)$/ ) {
                   if ( $c == 0 ) {
                       # After some tests, if we put the repo in  pre scripts in the kickstart like for rhels6.x
                       # the rhels5.9 will not be installed successfully. So put in kickstart directly.
-                      $source_in_pre .=  "echo 'url --url http://'\$nextserver'/$pkgdir' >> /tmp/repos";
-                      $source .=  "url --url http://#TABLE:noderes:\$NODE:nfsserver#/$pkgdir\n"; #For rhels5.9
+                      $source_in_pre .=  "echo 'url --url $http2 >> /tmp/repos";
+                      $source .=  "url --url $http\n"; #For rhels5.9
                   } else {
-                      $source_in_pre .=  "\necho 'repo --name=pkg$c --baseurl=http://'\$nextserver'/$pkgdir' >> /tmp/repos";  
-                      $source .=  "repo --name=pkg$c --baseurl=http://#TABLE:noderes:\$NODE:nfsserver#/$pkgdir\n";  #for rhels5.9
+                      $source_in_pre .=  "\necho 'repo --name=pkg$c --baseurl=$http2' >> /tmp/repos";
+                      $source .=  "repo --name=pkg$c --baseurl=$http\n";  #for rhels5.9
                   }
               } elsif ($platform =~ /^(sles|suse)/) {
-                  my $http = "http://#TABLE:noderes:\$NODE:nfsserver#$pkgdir";
                   $source .=  "         <listentry>
                <media_url>$http</media_url>
                <product>SuSE-Linux-pkg$c</product>
@@ -224,7 +229,7 @@ sub subvars {
                <ask_on_error config:type=\"boolean\">false</ask_on_error> <!-- available since openSUSE 11.0 -->
                <name>SuSE-Linux-pkg$c</name> <!-- available since openSUSE 11.1/SLES11 (bnc#433981) -->
              </listentry>";
-               $source_in_pre .="<listentry><media_url>http://'\$nextserver'$pkgdir</media_url><product>SuSE-Linux-pkg$c</product><product_dir>/</product_dir><ask_on_error config:type=\"boolean\">false</ask_on_error><name>SuSE-Linux-pkg$c</name></listentry>";
+               $source_in_pre .="<listentry><media_url>$http2</media_url><product>SuSE-Linux-pkg$c</product><product_dir>/</product_dir><ask_on_error config:type=\"boolean\">false</ask_on_error><name>SuSE-Linux-pkg$c</name></listentry>";
               }
               $c++;
           }