Recently I wanted to get a VPN connection from a phone to an openvpn server. The openvpn app only provides two or three options for getting your ovpn file: 1) use itunes, 2) go to a website in safari that has the .ovpn file, or 3) send via mail. <\/p>\n
Option 1 was out since the phone was locked down enough to not permit me to transfer apps. Not sure why – likely just a policy of the phone (i dont own the phone). <\/p>\n
Option 3 is less secure so I skipped that.<\/p>\n
Option 2 is easy – I only had to make a few mods off what I found via Mr. Google:<\/p>\n
\r\nca [inline]\r\ncert [inline]\r\nkey [inline]\r\n<\/pre>\nHowever this doesn’t actually work. Instead, just delete those lines and stuff the ca, cert, key, and tls keys under the appropriate tags (they have the same name as the config lines)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
I then pointed my browser at the .ovpn file, at which point safari recognizes that you can open it in openvpn. All worked marvellously thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I wanted to get a VPN connection from a phone to an openvpn server. The openvpn app only provides two or three options for getting your ovpn file: 1) use itunes, 2) go to a website in safari that has the .ovpn file, or 3) send via mail. Option 1 was out since the … Continue reading How to get an ovpn file onto iOS device via HTTP<\/span>
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