Comments on: OpenVPN setup on Centos 5.2

By: James Mitnick

James Mitnick — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:45:48 +0000

Can i get someone to install and configure openvpn server on my vps ?

By: Trudy Jilek

Trudy Jilek — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:43:28 +0000

Are you sure you are forwarding the correct ports? GRE uses port 1723. You need to forward requests on port 1723 on your WAN to your internal host (server) on the same port.

By: Milanemajmune

Milanemajmune — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:11:21 +0000

# openvpn –config openvpn.conf
Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in openvpn.conf:5: ca (2.0.9)
Use –help for more information.

Getting this error too.

Anyone got this sorted? Except for Milan who is full of great advices

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:29:38 +0000

Check line 5 for error in openvpn.conf file

By: mirostz

mirostz — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:49:52 +0000

I paste wrong output here is the output of the configuration file:
# openvpn –config openvpn.conf
Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in openvpn.conf:5: ca (2.0.9)
Use –help for more information.

By: mirostz

mirostz — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:46:15 +0000

Hello guys I have a very strange problem i can not find anything about it in google. So i want to ask here can someone help me. I have installed and configured everything as i should lzo and openvpn are installed. I have generated all the keys for the server and i have done the server.conf file like this:
dev tun
proto tcp
port 1194

ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh1024.pem

user nobody
group nogroup
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0

persist-key
persist-tun

#status openvpn-status.log
#verb 3
client-to-client

push “redirect-gateway def1″

#log-append /var/log/openvpn
comp-lzo

my crt and key files are in the same directory as my config file. but when i do
]# openvpn –config server.conf
Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in server.conf:78: ca (2.0.9)
Use –help for more information.

I get this unusual error and i can not find out why it this happening whats wrong with ca ca.crt line
Please help me.

By: Weakboy

Weakboy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:37:25 +0000

do some update
yum update -y

it will install openvpn 2.0 or later~ then things above come out

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:27:55 +0000

Hi,

bash-3.2# . ./vars
bash: ./vars: No such file or directory

By: Dids

Dids — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:00:15 +0000

Hmm, for some reason /etc/openvpn/certs doesn’t exist even though I’m following your steps exactly. Any ideas why?