OpenVPN questions - planning my install

ryanl

I am going to be installing openVPN on my Ubuntu 14.14 server, this server also hosts a public facing web site.

After I install openVPN I will also install ownCloud for us to use. What I want to do is set this up so oneCloud is only accessible after establishing a VPN connection, I don't want any part of oneCloud to be visible over the public internet, I am fairly certain I set this config in oneCloud.

But I am wondering about the openVPN bridge and network configurations I setup. The only thing I want the openVPN to do is make a tunnel to ownCloud and nothing else on the server. The bridged VPN setup I was reading said "A bridged VPN allows the clients to appear as though they are on the same local area network (LAN) as the server system".

While I do want this, I only want access to PART of the system, the part where I have installed ownCloud.

Any advice on what I should do with my setup and how to configure?

Traffic

Do you need a bridge:

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#vpntype

Answer .. probably not.

ryanl wrote The only thing I want the openVPN to do is make a tunnel to ownCloud and nothing else on the server

Use iptables to allow/block ports.

ryanl wroteAny advice on what I should do with my setup and how to configure

See the documentation:

OpenVPN Community Edition Documentation
HOWTO: For OpenVPN Community Edition