Management not working

PROXIMO

Hi all,
Have been using openvpn for few years already. Have home linux server running openvpn 2.4.7. Before the reinstall of the OS it was lower version and it did work. I am using the same config file, enabling it in the server.conf file by adding

management localhost port

Port is open and openvpn is listening according to netstat. But when trying to connect to the management it says that connection is refused. I connect from the same machine from web interface using php file to display the results

$fp = fsockopen($vpn_host, $vpn_port, $errno, $errstr, 30);

How come on the old setup was working fine, now it does not work. What should i do.

My final goal is to enable the web status again

Thank you

edit:
if you like the status page you can download it from https://github.com/PROX1MO/OpenVPN-Web-Status

Pippin

Have you tried connecting with telnet? (or even netcat)

PROXIMO

No I don't have telnet and netcat on my windows machine. Testing the port from powershell says it is not open

PS C:\Users\User> test-netconnection -port 5555 -computername 10.10.10.1
WARNING: TCP connect to (10.10.10.1 : 5555) failed


ComputerName           : 10.10.10.1
RemoteAddress          : 10.10.10.1
RemotePort             : 5555
InterfaceAlias         : Wi-Fi
SourceAddress          : 10.10.10.200
PingSucceeded          : True
PingReplyDetails (RTT) : 1 ms
TcpTestSucceeded       : False

but what is the point since it will not be user outside the localhost

root@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo netstat -tulpn | grep 5555
tcp6       0      0 ::1:5555                :::*                    LISTEN      10129/openvpn

Pippin

The point is, if it works with telnet then the problem is php code.

You can try putty for Windows to connect.
No idea if it works/should work with powershell, I'm no Windows user.

Also check firewall.
2.4.7 is out of date too.

PROXIMO

Should port be added to firewall since code is executed locally from the same server, not outside.
Version 2.4.7 might be out of date, but it is on the repository and it works. Old setup was with even older version. It worked fine there too, even management.

Pippin

What if you try,

management 127.0.0.1 5555

management 10.10.10.1 5555

PROXIMO

It worked with 127.0.0.1

root@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo netstat -tulpn | grep 5555
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5555          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      25819/openvpn

Thank you

Pippin

You're welcome.
Seems 2.4.7 doesn't do IPv6...
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PROXIMO

i have fixed the hosts so it works with localhost