OpenVPN Admin

Summary

Administrate its OpenVPN with a web interface (logs visualisations, users managing…) and a SQL database.

Prerequisite

• GNU/Linux with Bash and root access
• Fresh install of OpenVPN
• Web server (NGinx, Apache…)
• MySQL
• PHP >= 5.5 with modules:
  • zip
  • pdo_mysql
• bower
• unzip
• wget
• sed
• curl

Debian 8 Jessie

# apt-get install openvpn apache2 php5-mysql mysql-server php5 nodejs unzip git wget sed npm curl
# npm install -g bower
# ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Debian 9 Stretch

In order to install npm, stretch-backports need to be added to your sources.list.

# apt-get install -t stretch-backports npm nodejs
# apt-get install openvpn apache2 php-mysql mysql-server php-zip php unzip git wget sed curl
# npm install -g bower

CentOS 7

# yum install epel-release
# yum install openvpn httpd php-mysql mariadb-server php nodejs unzip git wget sed npm
# npm install -g bower
# systemctl enable mariadb
# systemctl start mariadb

Other distribution… (PR welcome)

Tests

Only tested on Debian Jessie. Feel free to open issues.

Installation

• Setup OpenVPN and the web application:

  $ cd ~/my_coding_workspace
  $ git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/OpenVPN-Admin openvpn-admin
  $ cd openvpn-admin
  # ./install.sh /var/www www-data www-data
  

• Setup the web server (Apache, NGinx…) to serve the web application.

• Create the admin of the web application by visiting http://your-installation/index.php?installation

Usage

• Start OpenVPN on the server (for example systemctl start openvpn@server)
• Connect to the web application as an admin
• Create an user
• User get the configurations files via the web application (and put them in /etc/openvpn)
• Users on GNU/Linux systems, run chmod +x /etc/openvpn/update-resolv.sh as root
• User run OpenVPN (for example systemctl start openvpn@client)

Update

$ git pull origin master
# ./update.sh /var/www

Desinstall

It will remove all installed components (OpenVPN keys and configurations, the web application, iptables rules…).

# ./desinstall.sh /var/www

Use of

• Bootstrap
• Bootstrap Table
• Bootstrap Datepicker
• JQuery
• X-editable