For the most part, the how-to documentation on the OpenVPN website it quite good, and easy to follow. However, there are a few “gotcha’s” that the documentation doesn’t make clear. Some of these “gotcha’s” involve errors on the part of the package maintainers or developers. Some involve things that you need to do, but that the documentation doesn’t even mention.

In this document, we’ll endeavor to make things a bit more clear, and save you from suffering the “trial-and-error” method of setting up a simple VPN.