How to Install OpenVPN on Ubuntu (self-hosted VPN) 

Sent Tony an email like 2 days ago regarding this specific question and literally 2 days later this man comes out with the perfect tutorial! Appreciate your help so much dude!!

Thank you very much. Your explanation made it so simple. I watched others a lot. Luckily I found your when I had to give up. The way you showed was even easier and effictive teaching than the ready-made templates. Thank you again

Dude, I've been trying to configure one of these for years on an old vps. Every guide I found was crap. This was perfection, had it all up and running in about 30 mins. Thank you!!!!!!!

I really owe you one dude. After hours trying by other guys yours worked ! You won a new subscriber.

Awesome guide. Was going to use the OVA template from them, but this worked out much better to setup it and run my unifi controller on the same server.

Man. I really appreciate your tutorial. Learned a lot and it makes managing my plex server so much easier.

Short, sweet and to the point. SIMPLE

Hi, thanks for the tutorial, so for this one you do not need port forwarding? Openvpn does all? Or you still need to setup the port on the router?

Brilliant content straight to the point, lean bacon! Love it!🤓

yo, this was a great video, very easy to follow along. Thanks! subbed btw

Things have changed a bit: first off when adding the repositories you have to change the name of the ubuntu version you're using (in my case I changed "focal" to "jammy", also the default password for the openvpn (admin) user is given in the terminal when finished installing (so you cannot use "passwd openvpn" command anymore).

Great Video. Thanks Tony😊👍

Thank you Tony, that was useful and very clear :)

Great video but I'm having some trouble getting it to work on a virtualbox VM running on my home PC. I'm using the virtual appliance provided by openvpn on their website and set it up using all defaults, but it uses the private ip. When I switch to my public ip in the access server I can no longer connect nor import profile :(

Great video! Bold to share your IP like that, but I like bold 👍

Thank you for this. Much appreciated.

hi can u help me i use Ubuntu 18.04 i want to install open vpn-as in putty and then it says unable to correct problems, you have held broken package , what should i do ?

Thanks for this amazing tutorial. how can we set it up on two vps? one inside the country and the other one in a country that we want our IP get changed? and how can we change the port?

*correction post edit ...thank you for this tutorial I have it installed and working but one thing I need help with..when I connect to my network via vpn I can not see any printers on my connected network....any hep would be greatly appreciated

Hi, Tony can you make the same tutorial with the OpenVPN community edition where we have no limitation of the connections(licenses). Thank you

my iphone can not connect to the VPN-Server when i am out of the network. how can i fix it. how to connect to my home vpn server from another network? thank you.

very much THANK you! i spent two day reading forums, and couldn't look find a good solution. i'm just learning linux system

found this tutorial, since I've ever managed openvpn via command line only so far. Installed openvpn-as on a freshly installed testing vm on ubuntu 20 but I cannot for the sake access the admin panel, it shows eula to accept, but sends me right back to the login screen.. what a brilliant piece of software this is. username and password are correct, accessing it from different browsers, still the same.

Good tutorial. Works for windows and macbook, but clicking on ubuntu redirects to some article, instead of downloading settings.

Hi Tony , Please can you do a video about how to automate the openVpn installation using Ansible playbook

Thanks for the video. i have a question: i did the installation steps and when i clicked the link, This site can’t be reached. What is the reason for this error? what should I do?

Dont you need to implement policy and routing on the server? Like what you are allowed to access etc.

Amazing! Thanks, Tony

Hi, I tried to setup the same as you discussed. But Im not getting internet when I turn-on the client app. I actually used Virtual Machine using Virtual box to setup the OpenVPN server ? Is this might be the issue?

Hi Tony, I'd like to configure the "ovpn" file from the user access area for a Linksys WRT54G router running Fresh Tomato. I've been on it unsuccessfully for hours. Any idea how to do that?

Thanks to your tutorial I do managed to setup my own VPN. It was pretty hard for me because I'm totally new to linux. Whatever Thank you man!

Thank you for the video! Do you know how to set up the vpn server to not change the ip? I want to access my linux server outside my network. For example, I want to access samba server, cockpit, and home assistant outside the network.

thanks for this ! did this right after Canadian bill c-11 (censorship) passed on my American vps

Very useful. Thanks 👍🏽.

I got a problem everytime I get an error saying it failed to automatically configure it and if try to do it manually it fails saying there are errors in the python script

Hi tony thanks for the amazing guide could you maybe assist with how do i make my vpn out in the public? once created the open vpn i've got no ping from other endpoint tjhanks

Hi, how to install SSL for openvpn access server? by default, the connect to admin and client UI is not secured

After got url to access openvpn on browser it's not opening for me, ll traffic is opened , can you suggest here ?

hello, thanks for the video, i wanna ask where I can find that address that u inserted after @ thanks in advance

So my self hosted box is not working. On my client i get the error "peer certificate verification failure" I even removed my cert and added a new one and it is still not working.

amazing Tony your videos are great appreciate you

My VPN profile is stuck on loading when trying to connect and after a while says connection timed out. Dont know what I did wrong. Please help.

Do you have any videos showing how to limit users to say just 1 server on the network?

After running apt install openvpn-as it doesnt show me a link after installing

help, my user never connects and failure after connection timeout my server has the ports tcp 443, tcp 943 and udp 1194 open. I dont know what is happening, Can someone help me?

Don't forget to run as superuser (root), or use 'sudo' before every 'apt' command. You can change to superuser/root mode by running 'sudo su -' in the command line.

This great and I like your other videos to I just subbed

I did everything stpe by step and when I'm going to reach the admin page or even my IP address with 943 port, the page doesn't load and I get this message from browser: "This site can’t be reached"

Hi @Tony, I installed OpenVPN on Ubuntu Server, hosted on Oracle Cloud. I am able to connect to the OpenVPN using client from a windows PC, but after getting connected to the VPN, internet is not working. Please help.

Hi Tony, can you restrict access to your webserver only to pc connected to vpn server ?

Thanks Tony for this great tutorial which I followed through and successfully creatd my OpenVPN access server. I just want to mentiona that as of writing this comment, it seems that this access server setup doesn't generate a user account "openvpn" anymore. Instead you are getting a new "openvpn_as" user on the Ubuntu system. Also, you'll have to open up port 943 (tcp) for the admin portal to be accessible through web browser. In addition, port 443/tcp and port 1194/udp will be used by open VPN service itself for client to connect. Hence above mentioned ports shall be open on the Ubuntu ufw and relevant security rules from the cloud hosting service provider.

Awesome Brother..give me a suggestion or a video how can i forword my port using openvpn hosted on my vps..please

This is my first Ubuntu server/ OpenVPN set up. I have typically used the built VPN service built into my home router however i decided to build my own VPN server to access my resources at home. This video appears to be what i need to accomplish this task however since it's my first attempt, do you have a video that goes over the steps/configuration to access my LAN resources with security in mind.

Hi Tony. Do you know how to set it up for Remote access?

How come you didnt need to port foward port 1194 to be able connect on your open vpn ? Usually u need to do this

I try install on my VDS - Ubuntu but.. I have failure message: This page is not working, web has not sent any data. When i try login to admin

How to use VPN for sharing critical data of my company ? I mean, how to setup my company website in order to access only if im using a specific VPN ?

I did everything in tutorial but cannot connect in the end, connection timed out, nothing in logs

I installed openvpn in my ubuntu but the admin address is my private ip address instead of the public ip address provided by Microsoft azure, could someone help to answer?

I can only connect while I'm on my home network.. How do I fix this?

But it only works for local connections . What shall i do?

I have finished the admin login step and not getting how to login as a user in ubuntu

I attempted to ask on your webpage but it looks like reCaptcha is broken. Is this also limited to 2 users as is image on OpenVPN page or is unlimited users?

when I install openvpn and finish aftar type passwd openvpn show this error "user 'openvpn' does not exist' please help

great video , but when I want to add oepnvpn to my repository list , it won't work , I get an error " Try `wget -- help for more option " , I triple check it , I'll do everything as you say .

if i want to access some specific domain through OpenVPN then?

I went through all the steps, but when I entered the admin's IP in the browser, no page came to me

Can I use these installation steps in Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS ?

i can't pass a licence agreement.. it constantly logs me out.. type username and password, get licence agree button, just click to reload and boom im logged out again..

Thanks for the info. I like to make puzzle and solve them. Could I use this to tunnel my connection through to another location? Say I had a computer that had it's own VPN where I wasn't the admin and thus couldn't change anything on the computer like add software or anything but I wanted the computer to think it was in a certain location before I logged into its VPN. Are there any guides that explain how to do this? Thank you!

when you login into the openvpn UI , we saw there was line which was saying only 2 vpn connection allowed. so if wanna setup this openvpn server for my 50 member of team member. will this setup work or we have to purchase the Paid plan?

I don't see how you got the client gui installed and showing.

With the VPN active is all data passed through the VPN now encrypted?

it doesnt show me the IP Addresses also they dont work. am i missing any command to launch the server?

i followed this video to the T, no matter what i do it never changes my ip. can anyone help?

Thanks, I just succesfully installed openvpn on ubuntu server 22.04. Can you explain how to create the config file .ovpn, which we can use for android devices. I want to connect to my vpn server at home from outside. tnx

thanks man, it was great :)

how do you add more location on it

I have forgot my openvpn access server admin password. Plus, when I try "passwd openvpn", It says "passwd: user 'openvpn' does not exist". Please help me solve this. Thankyou.

Thank you so much i just started my vpn server. How can i restart the server without reinstalling?

I done all of them but when I wanna enter admin panel I face incorrect login error even my password is correct, what is my username? it's not openvpn

Thanks, man! You helped me a lot

Hi Tony thanks for simplified and Nice tutorial, Can we have a tutorial for OPVPN open source one that can be accessed through internet. I have configured one but I can only access on Local Network.

i connected on the shell got the admin IP and password, although on the Web UI it does not connect, anyone please help?

Hey Tony! Thanks for the step by step tutorial. I did everything as mentioned and created a connection. However, the connection is not stable and even when it is connected to the server nothing loads through the web, would you mind helping me?

Hey Tony, i am getting this error when installing openvpn-as: The following packages have unmet dependencies: openvpn-as : Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us. I have a question, why is it that it grabs my private IP instead of the public IP?

Thanks you, clear and easy explanation

Great Video. Thanks!

I cannot install the dependency libssl1.1 as it was removed from the ubuntu repository due security concerns - Maybe because of the recently poped up xz-CVE? Do already a workaround for this exists?

Great video! I am puzzled though how it works so effortlessly for you.. I am able to get the server up and running, access it remotely by my public WAN IP with portforwarding and download the OpenVPN Connect client. This is where the fun stops... Can't connect to the Access Server from my remote machine where I installed the client... I am running the Access Server on an Ubuntu Server 20.04 in VMware pro. If you or anyone else has a solution to this it would be greatly appreciated. I wanna use this badly for my final exam project.

The video was excellent, BUT it does not apply to servers at home, because everything comes out as localhost ip

min 3:22 apeear private ip not public :S where can i change it? :S

Can I do this with Kali or is this Ubuntu exclusive?

Sweet, as soon as oracle finishes setting my account up I'm installing this on one of the free servers. I'm sick of playing lost ark with the crappy speeds from free VPNS lol.

how about OpenVPN Community edition? cuz i dont see so much about it from google or youtube. most likely openvpn AS edition only(like what u did in the video)

And split tunnels?

Can someone help me setup centos 7 I have a ovh

I really exited that it worked when I followed what you did

I love your video.