w0lverine I have spent the last 3 hours on a Saturday trying to find out why my keys are not being accepted. And surprisingly such a common error people have, I still can't find out why I am receiving the error. I feel like my server.conf is not actually accepting my server.conf file. Why? I renamed my certs in the server.conf file and the error still reports back as server.crt, server.key.... so I was like maybe I have another server.conf file running??? I searched for one and nothing popped up. 1. No other .conf within my /etc/openvpn location 2. keys are located in /etc/openvpn/keys/ 3. I did change the location of the keys to /etc/openvpn/keys within my server.conf file. 4. New ubuntu 1804 vm 5. server.conf reflects my servername Questions. 1. Where does the server.conf usually reside? 2. Why can't openvpn recognize my key files? Any help would be greatly appreciated.