OpenVPN on Webserver?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:37 am
Hi, just wondering if you can help me. Im still new to openVPn in reagrds to getting technical with but at the moment i have a openVPN server running on a EC2 server and i simply create certificates for users that want to connect to it using cmd.
The reason they want to connect is to talk to one particular computer that is logging data. I have written some software that talks to the computer, simply requests data and thats it.
But want i want to do now is develop the same software on the net, it uses simple TCP sockets to connect to the computer, and exchange data. but to connect to it you need to be connected to the openVPN? So what i want is for the "web server" or "website" to be connected to the VPN so any user can talk to the machine (obviosuly there will be a "website" login, so not everyone but any with a login)
Basically so a user can goto the online software, "login" to the software and do what ever.
Is this doable and if so what is the method to do so?
Is it simply having a "web server" with a VPN client running in the background?
Thanks
Andy
The reason they want to connect is to talk to one particular computer that is logging data. I have written some software that talks to the computer, simply requests data and thats it.
But want i want to do now is develop the same software on the net, it uses simple TCP sockets to connect to the computer, and exchange data. but to connect to it you need to be connected to the openVPN? So what i want is for the "web server" or "website" to be connected to the VPN so any user can talk to the machine (obviosuly there will be a "website" login, so not everyone but any with a login)
Basically so a user can goto the online software, "login" to the software and do what ever.
Is this doable and if so what is the method to do so?
Is it simply having a "web server" with a VPN client running in the background?
Thanks
Andy