Access server installed on internal ip instead of public ip

luckyman118

Hi,

Need help here. I have tried to install the openvpn access server on my cloud vps but it is used the internal ip instead of the public up...... how do i rectify this?

So instead of getting:

https://{my public ip}:943/admin

The openvpn used my internal ip and i can't access it.

The Johan

If this is a new setup and nothing has been configured yet, you can run ovpn-init --force to try the configuration again. When asked what IP to listen to select the 0.0.0.0 option. That should solve it.

luckyman118

Thanks just tried to run the configuration but it doesn't seem to work.
It still list my internal ip as the access url.

Any workaround?

Openvpn is using the internal ip as the listening ip.

The Johan

You can manually edit the database to set a different IP or interface. But it has to be a valid IP or interface that actually exists on the server itself. If your system only has an internal IP configured, which is NATted from outside on a public IP to the private IP, then the issue must be resolved there.

In other words, if the public IP is not on your interfaces, then you can't configure that.

Use this command to find out what your current settings are;
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba -s

And these to change it to listen to all addresses;
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba -mk admin_ui.https.ip_address -v all
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba -mk admin_ui.https.port -v 943
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba -mk cs.https.ip_address -v all
/usr/local/openvpn_as/scripts/confdba -mk cs.https.port -v 943

You can replace 'all' with an interface name or IP address.

The web based interface should then become available on port 943 (https://yourserver.com:943/)

The Johan

Forgot to add; after changing settings do a restart of the Access Server service;
service openvpnas restart

luckyman118

Thanks a lot novaflash.

I will try and see if it works.