Note: In order to connect, you must have root access. Just install the OpenVPN client on your machine and download the user-locked profile that will be used to connect to OpenVPN.Ĭonnect to OpenVPN using the following command: sudo openvpn -config client.ovpn As I am working on Linux, I am going select OpenVPN for Linux, which will take you to this page. Then, you need to install the OpenVPN client. Just can enter openvpn as the username and the password that you set earlier. You just need to skip it and proceed to the URL. This will prompt a warning message, as shown below. Now open the browser and go to the elastic IP address with the https protocol. Once the configuration completes, change the password for the openvpn user. Now keep pressing enter until the initial configuration completes. When you enter into the instance, you will get the message below. Now associate that address with the instance you created earlier for OpenVPN.Īfter that, Elastic IP will link to that instance and become the public IP of that instance. Hit Allocate New Address, and you will get an elastic IP. In order to create elastic IP, hit Elastic IPs in the left panel of the EC2 dashboard. Until then, we will create an elastic IP so that the IP will not get lost.
It will take few minutes to reach a running state. Here, I am going to select General Purpose (SSD) and hit next.Īfter that, AWS will skip to step number 7 in the process, where we need to review the instance. I am going to select t2.micro, as it eligible for the free tier. Then go to the AWS Marketplace and search for OpenVPN and select OpenVPN Access Server Log into your AWS account and go to the EC2 dashboard, then launch an instance. We are going to install an OpenVPN server and an OpenVPN client on your local machine, so first, you need an AWS account. So, with the history behind us, let's go through how to install OpenVPN on the cloud.įor this post, I am using the free tier provided by Amazon Web Services. OpenVPN is more than 16 years old - the first release was on. OpenVPN is open source software that implements VPN and is used for creating peer-to-peer connections.
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