Openvpn access server license key free 2019 full

Openvpn Access Server License Key Free
Openvpn Access Server License Key Free 2019 Full
Openvpn Access Server License Key Free
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No new activation key or Access Server configuration needed. Are subscriptions free to try with Access Server? Two connections are available for free with no restrictions on features for OpenVPN Access Server. Create an account here. If you continue using your current OpenVPN Access Server as it is without either upgrading or applying the licensing patch, it will function normally and the license keys that are on it right now will continue working just fine, even after January 20th (assuming your license keys do not expire before then of course). We use OpenVPN Access Server at work on a dedicated server which replaced our old Microsoft VPN server. The 'engine' is basically the same with exception that the GUI is provided to manage it. There is one thing I do like about OpenVPN Access Server is the Web GUI for users to install the pre-packaged OpenVPN client created specifically for.

OpenVPN is a commercial VPN solutions service to secure your data communications. You can use this in number of ways like hiding your internet identity, remote access to company, inside IoT security and many more. My most favorite use of OpenVPN is to use it as SSH whitelisting, so you can SSH to your server instances only when you are connected to a certain VPN.

Remember, OpenVPN service is not free, but it's cost is very affordable and reasonable for a personal as well as corporate setup!

Overview of AWS setup :

When you spin up an EC2 instance on AWS, you can either choose from vanilla instance AMIs like basic centos or ubuntu 16.x etc. OR you can choose from pre-baked marketplace AMIs. Services like OpenVPN use marketplace AMIs to provide their pre-baked instances which are ready to use.

But wait. It is not that plug and play. Setting up OpenVPN can be tricky specially when you do not know the sequence of steps and some little tricks. But, we have got you covered.

We will be also dealing with the common problem of untrusted SSL certificate error and install a free CertBot SSL to make your OpenVPN server full proof. Let's get started!

Step 1 - Spinning up the EC2 server :

Login to your AWS Console and go to the region you want yout OpenVPN instance to be in
Select EC2 service and click on Launch to spin up a new instance
The EC2 launch wizard will be shown, where click on AWS Marketplace on left
Now search for openvpn and press enter
It will show number of official OpenVPN marketplace AMIs which are different in the number of connected devices. I will strongly recommend if you are doing it for the first time, choose the first one which will give you 2 concurrent devices to start with. You can anytime purchase a new license for extending number of users.

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Now click on select when you have choosen your AMI
You will be prompted with OpenVPN service cost for each instance type you spin up. This will be added to your AWS billing. I would always choose t2.micro instance type as OpenVPN server does not need much memory to perform it's operations.

Click on continue and choose instance type as t2.micro
Click on Next: Configure Instance Details
This is an important step. Make sure you choose your VPC if you have one and choose it's public subnet. If you do not have custom VPC and subnets, leave these settings as is. Make sure that its a public subnet as OpenVPN instance should be in a public subnet so it is accessible via web directly.
Click on Next: Add Storage
Here you need to make sure the instance volume is encrypted. Otherwise you will get warning like Volume (/dev/sda1) needs to be encrypted as encryption is enabled by default. Click on Encryption dropdown and choose a KMS key which will encrypt your volume. Also make sure your instance volume type is General Purpoise SSD (gp2). Sometimes it changes to Magnetic (standard) when you enable volume encryption
Click on Next: Add Tags and add the tags you need for this instance
Click on Next: Configure Security Group
You need to select Create a new security group. Add security group name as OpenVPN server SG. Wait. Hey, AWS already has filled in the group rules for you, thats awesome.. isn't it?

Click on Review and Launch
Verify the details once in this final summary screen and click on Launch
It will ask you to select a key pair create a new one as OpenVPN-key-pair and download it.
Now finally. Click on Launch Instances

You are done with launching the instance. Yassssss!! Above steps will launch your new server.

Step 2 - Assigning elastic IP and domain :

When your instance is up and running, you will see it's public IP given by AWS automatically. However, once you reboot this instance anytime, this IP will change. We do not want that. So we will associate an elastic IP to this instance so it stays no matter if the instance is stopped or rebooted.

Select EC2 service from the same region where you have the OpenVPN instance
Click on Elastic IPs
Click on Allocate new address and select Allocate
Now you will see a new elasic IP in the list which is not associated with any instance
Select that IP and in the actions dropdown choose Associate Address
You will see a new association form, keep resource type as Instance and select your new OpenVPN instance from the instance dropdown
Save the association
Now of you go back to the instance and see it's public IP, you will see the new elastic IP as its public IP.

Now, you can associate a domain to this new public IP or you can keep as it is. It depends on your preference but I would recommend having a domain like vpn.yourdomain.com to access this server.

If you choose to have a domain, then this is the time when you need to point the A record of your domain to the new elastic public IP. For the consistency in remaining article, we are going to use vpn.yourdomain.com.

Step 3 : Initializing up the OpenVPN basic settings :

Now, you will not be able to access openVPN directly. This is because you are yet to initiate the basic settings. For that, we need to ssh into the server.

Use the key pair file OpenVPN-key-pair.pem to ssh into the instance. As in the security group port 22 is open for everyone with value 0.0.0.0/0, you would be able to SSH to your instance from anywhere. (We will change that after the setup is completed)
Use ssh username as openvpnas as this comes default with the OpenVPN marketplace AMI
Once you login to the instance, you will see a setup wizard and it will ask you to agree to the terms and conditions
Now it will ask number of settings to you :

Now you we need a password to login first time as an admin. For that run command

You are done with basic setup, we can now proceed with the web UI for further settings.

Step 4 : Accessing OpenVPN Web UI :

Now we will access the OpenVPN Web UI using the elastic IP with url https://x.x.x.x:943/admin where x.x.x.x is your elasic IP. You might be thinking that we have vpn.yourdomain.com setup so why are we using the elastic IP? We will get back to it shortly but for the first time we will need to use the IP.