2025-04-22 12:06:26Samuli Seppänen:
Update information in the Windows guide
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## Downloading and Installing OpenVPN
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### Installing manually
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1. Download the installer from [here](https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html) and run it on the server computer. During the setup, make sure to check mark the component named "EasyRSA 2 Certificate Management Scripts".
2. Install OpenVPN on each client. (This step can be skipped for now and done at any convenient time)
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### Installing with Chocolatey
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[Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) is a package manager for Windows. To install Chocolatey follow the official setup instructions which at the time of writing this (April 2025) are:
You can omit the --package-parameters option if you are fine with the defaults as most would be.
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## Certificates and Keys
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You can generate a certificate authority (CA) for OpenVPN with [easy-rsa 3](https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa). The instructions below refer to the easy-rsa 2 ([here](https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa-old)), which has not been in active development in a long time. Therefore the steps given may or may not work on modern Windows systems.
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You can and should, whenever possible, generate the CA on a separate system, not on the OpenVPN server.
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### Preparatory Steps
1. Navigate to the C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa folder on an elevated command prompt:
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Start Menu -> All Programs -> OpenVPN -> OpenVPN GUI
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2. Double click the icon which shows up in the system tray to initiate the connection. The resulting dialog should close upon a successful start.
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**Note**: The current version of the GUI (as of July 2019) cannot be used to run a server config due to this bug: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/1164
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A bug fix is anticipated ...
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3. If you have multiple OpenVPN configurations available you can pick which one to use by right-clicking on the system tray icon.
