#Openvpn raspberry pi install#
#Openvpn raspberry pi code#

Then once that user is selected, hit Enter. If that’s the case, hit Enter! If you’ve got a custom user set up and want to set things up through that, select that user via the arrow keys and hit Spacebar. In this screen, if your Pi is set to defaults you’ll likely only have one option - the pi user.

Hit Enter to begin and move to the next screen. This screen above is just notifying us that we will soon choose our VPN’s local user. Once PiVPN’s network setting adjustments are done, it will bring you back to a nicer looking screen. If you’ve SSHed in and just changed your IP address … chances are, this is where you’ll get stuck, because your connection will get dropped! If this happens to you, run through the process again, but connect to the static IP you set up this time around. Wait a bit as it performs these actions to set a static IP and so on. The visual GUI style interface will then disappear and you’ll see in the terminal that your settings are confirmed in the text shown. If not, chances are high that you already know your own settings. They should look similar to my ones above if your home network is set up to the defaults of most home networks. Hit Enter on this screen to confirm your IP address settings are correct.

Once you’ve got this entered in, hit the Enter key. If you aren’t sure, try entering whatever IP address you enter to get to your router’s config page in your browser. This will depend on your network setup, but a lot of the time this will be 192.168.0.1. In this screen, you’ll need to enter in the IP address of your router or default gateway. Once you’ve got the IP address you’d like, hit Enter. In this screen, you’ll enter in the static IP address you’d like your Pi to have. I then hit Enter to go to the setup to change my Pi’s static IP. I personally wanted to change my Pi’s IP to something more memorable, so I clicked the arrow key to move my selection to and hit Spacebar to select it. This screen confirms your current IP address for the Pi.

Then click Enter to go to the next screen. If you can connect the Pi via ethernet, this will be much better for speeds! To choose an option, move your selection with the arrow keys and select it with the Spacebar. I personally choose Wi-Fi as my Pi isn’t close to my router. In the interface selection, you can choose whether you’d like to set the VPN up on your ethernet connection (eth0) or your Wi-Fi (wlan0).

#Openvpn raspberry pi install#

I made this mistake during the install process, and it gets messy to restart the install process to change it! Don’t have a static IP on your Pi? Don’t worry - the automated installer will set up a static IP for you soon.īe careful on this screen: hitting Enter will take you to the next screen, rather than making a selection in the two radio button options. Once you’ve hit Enter, you’ll be taken to another screen which will point out that a static IP address is important for this VPN service to work: if you don’t have a static IP for your Pi, your router won’t have an IP address to forward VPN functionality to. Running that command will open a slightly nicer looking, text-based GUI that starts with a simple prompt: I haven’t gone through and vetted their bash command line by line (I trust them!) but it is available to look through on their GitHub account (under install.sh within the auto_install folder) if you have any concerns.

#Openvpn raspberry pi code#

That can be incredibly dangerous if you don’t trust the installation source, as it will run whatever code you give it straight away.

Important Note: This command parses a random script downloaded from the web directly into your Pi’s bash. To get started, we run the following command in our Pi’s terminal (either via SSH or directly on the Pi): curl -L | bash