Getting the VPN Client AutoConfig in a secure way
Open A Secure SSH Tunnel To VPN Server
First we have to download The OpenVPN custom configuration file from the VPS server.
The file is accessible over SSH tunnel connecting to the VPN server.
Remember: The openvpn configuration file was created during the VPN server creation steps.
bash provision/localhost/2-start-ssh-tunnel.bash
or you can execute this:
ssh -4 -L 1180:127.0.0.1:1180 softwareshinobi@huracan.embaNET.softwareshinobi.digital
put the password of the user on your VPS server.
after you are done, the following command should work:
Verifying Tunnel Is Working
curl localhost:1180
the server response should look like this. it's coming over the SSH tunnel from a private tunnel on the VPS server.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
<style>
html { color-scheme: light dark; }
body { width: 35em; margin: 0 auto;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>
<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and
working. Further configuration is required.</p>
<p>For online documentation and support please refer to
<a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/>
Commercial support is available at
<a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p>
</body>
</html>
If it looks like that... you are done setting up the tunnel.
Open A New Terminal Window
Important Note:You will notice after you run this command that you are logged into the remote VPS server. That's correct. Now open a new terminal window on local host and continue. We need the following commands to come from localhost, not the remote server COUNTACH.
Download The OpenVPN Configuration File
Now we are on the tunnel. Let's download the configuration file.
wget localhost:1180/huracanVPN.ovpn
you will get output like this:
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:1180... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4944 (4.8K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘huracanVPN.ovpn’
huracanVPN.ovpn 100%[===================>] 4.83K --.-KB/s in 0s
2024-07-29 20:05:21 (239 MB/s) - ‘huracanVPN.ovpn’ saved [4944/4944]
Verifying Download of OpenVPN Configuration File
now when you ls the current directory you should see the following:
ls -l *vpn*
local server response:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 softwareshinobi softwareshinobi 4920 ago 6 20:50 huracanVPN.ovpn
-rwxrwxr-x 1 softwareshinobi softwareshinobi 53 ago 6 20:04 start-vpn-client.bash
Now you've downloaded the OpenVPN configuration file to your local server.
You can close the terminal window that started the tunnel, the one logged into HURACAN.