Extreme difficulty setting up VPN

Question

Oh my god, there are so many tutorials out there, and all of them involve complicated instructions that don't work. I'm really about to cry, and it's the first time I'm getting emotional over a computer thing.

I need to set up a VPN, like I could by double clicking Hotspot Shield on Ubuntu. I tried OpenVPN, part of their instructions went like this:

mkdir /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/
cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/* /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/

Here's what happened:

cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/2.0/*’: No such file or directory

Can someone please help me? I'll be very grateful.

Solution

Make sure easy-rsa is installed:

sudo apt-get install easy-rsa

If you are using 14.04.1 the command to create the easy-rsa dir and add everything you need is:

sudo make-cadir /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa

After that you can just cd to /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa and create your keys as the tutorial says.

Hope this helps!

Comments

[Marc]

Is this an employer's VPN or one you subscribe to personally? If it's the latter, you could try AirVPN, which I use. They have a nice application the connects and disconnects to their VPN service with the click of a mouse. Reasonable price, to. airvpn.org