Hi all, I'm having difficulties setting up public access to my Apache webserver, while an OpenVPN client is running on the machine. The machine is running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and I have a paid third party VPN connection so I cannot make changes to the server configuration. I have installed Apache to host a webserver on the machine, which is accessible through . I have routed the to my public IP adress through the DNS settings. When I am on my LAN on the same network as the webserver, I can access just fine. However outside my LAN, accessing results in a timeout. This is probably because all the outgoing packages are routed through the VPN, thus another IP. Is there a way to resolve this, to keep the VPN connection for outgoing conections but also to give public access to the webserver?

Public access to Apache while running OpenVPN Client

darthf1

Hi all,

I'm having difficulties setting up public access to my Apache webserver, while an OpenVPN client is running on the machine. The machine is running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and I have a paid third party VPN connection so I cannot make changes to the server configuration.

I have installed Apache to host a webserver on the machine, which is accessible through <mydomain.com>. I have routed the <mydomain.com> to my public IP adress through the DNS settings. When I am on my LAN on the same network as the webserver, I can access <mydomain.com> just fine. However outside my LAN, accessing <mydomain.com> results in a timeout. This is probably because all the outgoing packages are routed through the VPN, thus another IP.

Is there a way to resolve this, to keep the VPN connection for outgoing conections but also to give public access to the webserver?

chefboyct

Hi there,

I have the same issue and I am running the similar setup as you. I just dont allow IP address to access apache2 so once my VPN client is up and running on the same machine where apache and nextcloud sits, then I have no access at all (changing the Dynamic IP via FREEDNS... hence the reason). I hope you have some form of solutions on this so you can advice me Thanks.