VPN Setup on new VDS

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VPN Setup on new VDS

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WOW. I followed John's "How-to" in the knowledge base to set up a VPN. BAM! It was really that easy.
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doulos9 wrote:WOW. I followed John's "How-to" in the knowledge base to set up a VPN. BAM! It was really that easy.
Glad they can help. Saved me a million times.
The auto install script is amazing. Did you figure out how to forward ports? Are you using your VPN with a gaming system?
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Not for gaming. I use it to get around Comcast's blocking of web servers for getting access to my owncloud server in my study when I am away from home. I only connect through VPN when I know I am going to be out of town for a whole day, or more. If anyone knows how to get an xfinity modem to forward ports without using a VPN I'd sure like to know. Supposedly, they do not block any of the ports I use, but something is blocking them. I was able to forward ports in the past when I used my own modem.
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doulos9 wrote: Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:33 am WOW. I followed John's "How-to" in the knowledge base to set up a VPN. BAM! It was really that easy.
what How-to is that? I been trying to look for it and no luck.
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We have a guide for this here: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=11034
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guys i did everything right but when i signed in to openvpn i press start the server it denied it was after the 10th step

process started and then immediately exited: ['Thu Jul 12 00:47:55 2018 Linux ifconfig failed: could not execute external program']
service failed to start or returned error status
process started and then immediately exited: ['Thu Jul 12 00:47:55 2018 Linux ifconfig failed: could not execute external program']
service failed to start or returned error status

any clue
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Have you tried wiping and using the other set of steps?
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do u mean when i am doing the how-to i type clear or what
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for your post john i had to copy a guy on youtube that does the same steps tell if he is right or not so if he isnt that means i did it wrong and also at the end he will get an error the exact same one i sent on my old post here but i didnt understand how he fixed it
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this time i didnt use the youtube i tried to do it by your steps 1 by one ok so i wrote wget and the the copy link location after this i wrote dpkg -i openvpn and then the tab key i pressed enter then got 3 errors at the end saying

Could not read active profile name: profile/key _INTERNAL/run_api.active_profile not found in sqlite:////usr/local/openvpn_as/etc/db/config.db: util/options:79,db/confdb_admin:280,db/confdb:531,db/confdb:523,<string>:1,sagent/sagent_entry:38,db/confdb_admin:354,util/options:79,db/confdb_admin:280,db/confdb:531,db/confdb:523,util/error:61,util/error:44

i got this 3 times at the same time i dont know whats wrong but is there anyway you remote control my laptop or is it easy to solve no need cause it been 2 days till now and i dont know how to do it and thx
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