Cannot connect to openVPN service. Cannot reach OpenVPN server on raspberry pi

coffeeBee

I am not new to Linux, consider myself an avid learner.
I get several errors whenever I try to connect to & test out a newly setup openvpn server on a raspberry pi.

Here is what I have done so far. I followed a step by step guide to setup the Openvpn server service on the Pi III. I got some errors initially that seems to be related to the commands changing due to EASY-RSA changes. I resolved those.
Created the required user certificates and copied them to a flash drive then copied them onto my Fedora 22 box.
On my router I opened the required port for the service.
I then made sure that openvpn and openssl were installed on my Fedora box (also updated with yum update).

I issued the command from terminal as the regular user: "openvpn newvpn.ovpn". I get an error that says it cannot resolve the HOST ADDRESS, I have copied the log portions below. I try to restart the openvpn service, and I get these errors: Error opening configuration file: serv0x.conf
and openvpn-at-serv0x.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1. Failed to start.

I read the howto at openvpn but not sure what I should be looking for.

What am I doing wrong? Please give some guidance. I have copied sections of the logs below.

#this is a comment
[userxx-at-serv0x keys]$ openvpn newvpn.ovpn
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 OpenVPN 2.3.7 x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Jun 9 2015
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013, LZO 2.08
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 WARNING: file 'bxxx1.key' is group or others accessible
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->131072] S=[212992->131072]
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: 192.168.0.15:1194: Name or service not known
Sun Jul 8 00:16:30 2018 RESOLVE: Cannot resolve host address: 192.168.0.15:1194: Name or service not known
^CSun Jul 8 00:17:12 2018 RESOLVE: signal received during DNS resolution attempt
Sun Jul 8 00:17:12 2018 SIGINT[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting
#comment
[userxx-at-serv0x keys]$ journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Thu 2018-05-24 20:43:02 EDT, end at Sun 2018-07-08 00:15:02 EDT. --
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x sudo[5089]: userxx : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/userxx ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl start openvpn-at-serv
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x sudo[5089]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by userxx(uid=0)
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x systemd[1]: Starting OpenVPN Robust And Highly Flexible Tunneling Application On serv0x...
-- Subject: Unit openvpn-at-serv0x.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit openvpn-at-serv0x.service has begun starting up.
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x openvpn[5094]: Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: serv0x.conf
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x openvpn[5094]: Use --help for more information.
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x systemd[1]: openvpn-at-serv0x.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenVPN Robust And Highly Flexible Tunneling Application On serv0x.
-- Subject: Unit openvpn-at-serv0x.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit openvpn-at-serv0x.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x systemd[1]: Unit openvpn-at-serv0x.service entered failed state.
Jul 08 00:14:37 serv0x sudo[5089]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jul 08 00:15:02 serv0x fprintd[5090]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
#comment

dev tun
proto udp
port 1194
ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.crt
key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.key
dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/dh1024.pem
user nobody
group nogroup
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
persist-key
persist-tun
status /var/log/openvpn-status.log
verb 3
client-to-client
push "redirect-gateway def1"
#set the dns servers
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4"
push "dhcp-option DNS 75.75.75.75"
push "dhcp-option DNS my.interal.dhcp.ip"
log-append /var/log/openvpn
comp-lzo
#comment
dev tun
client
proto udp
remote my.ip.address:1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert bxxxxx1.crt
key bxxxxx1.key
comp-lzo
verb 3
#comment
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1024 0 0 wlp3s0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlp3s0
#comment
iptables -t nat -A INPUT -i enxb827eb951a01 -p udp -m udp --dport 1194 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o enxb827eb951a01 -j SNAT --to my.ip.address
#I updated this file to show my real NIC Card name:enxb827eb951a01 not eth0

TinCanTech

coffeeBee wrote Cannot resolve host address: 192.168.0.15:1194: Name or service not known

because

coffeeBee wrote remote my.ip.address:1194

remove the ":"

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