Can't Access Admin Web UI ??

Tiffany

Hi. I'm a newbie to OpenVPN. Just installed it using the Windows installer and generated a very standard server config file. The server starts and comes up ok, but ... I can't access the Admin Web UI at all. If you install on Windows, there is no opvn-init file and no way to specify an Admin port. It just installs blindly and asks nothing. So ... what am I doing wrong? The OpenVPN server has a LAN IP of 192.168.1.76. If the documentation is correct, I should be able to access the Admin Web UI at https://192.168.1.76:943/admin. However, this just times out. No response. The same is true if I skip the port # and just use https://192.168.1.76/admin.
What am I doing wrong. The OpenVPN GUI starts the server correctly, reports the LAN address correctly and then announces the virtual subnet IP correctly. All firewalls are off. Yet, OpenVPN just sits there. No Admin Web UI at all. No Client Web UI. Nothing.
There are a lot of guys on this forum that seem to be successfully using OpenVPN on Windows. Any help you could offer would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time and help.
Tiffany P.

Mimiko

Use netstat -a -b -n to see the running process and listening port.

jonspraggins

I'm having the same issue. OpenVPN Active Server is running fine, according to PFSense. However I cannot pull up the webui to save my life.

netstat --listening shows that the appropriate port is in LISTEN mode

sudo service openvpnas restart does indeed restart the service, but the webui doesn't come on.

I've tried upgrading to the latest version, which also did nothing.

I'm tempted to run ovpn-init, but I think it's destructive and this is a used VPN.

Suggestions?

lolex

Same problem here (debian and ubuntu server) ! how to fix ?

lolex

I found the problem, do not install modified linux distributions !!!!

leductung_72

i have the same problem 🙁