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

Learn how to install OpenVPN on Ubuntu for free. In this tutorial, we will be using Ubuntu 20.04.

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[SSmaverick]

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!!

[abdinasirmoalin]

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

[reachmind.]

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

[erichart]

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

[Stev.n]

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.

[snowysysadmin]

Short, sweet and to the point. SIMPLE

[hallercory]

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

[maomao]

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?

[TK-rrgj]

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

[splitee]

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

[josiahv]

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

[jyudat]

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

[WassimBM]

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

[anakinskywalker]

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

[jjbesp]

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 :(

[nurferdi]

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 ?

[paulhaubourdin]

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).

[ilona]

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.

[Erick]

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?

[JustLikeHammer]

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!