How to Set Up an OpenVPN Server

A VPN (Virtual Private Network) lets you traverse untrusted networks, like a hotel or coffee shop WiFi, as if it were a private network. OpenVPN is a full featured, open-source VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations. In this tutorial, we’ll set up OpenVPN on your server, and configure it to be accessible from a client machine. Choose your operating system to get started.

Featured on Community

Get our biweekly newsletter

Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.

Hollie's Hub for Good

Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We'd like to help.

Become a contributor

Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.

Welcome to the developer cloud

DigitalOcean makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Learn more
Animation showing a Droplet being created in the DigitalOcean Cloud console