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Set Up VPN on Windows VPS

Category: VPS Setup

Configure a VPN—Virtual Private Network—on a Windows VPS using OpenVPN—download from openvpn net install and generate keys with easy-rsa Edit server conf:
port 1194\nproto udp
start with
net start openvpn
Open port with
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"VPN\" dir=in action=allow protocol=UDP localport=1194
On AWS Lightsail test with a client—ensures secure MySQL and phpMyAdmin access Verify uptime with
netstat -an | find \"1194\"
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