We have to make the server start when the OS is booted, and we will do it with the following command: chkconfig -add vpnserver Start the SoftEther VPN server: /etc/init.d/vpnserver start The next step is to fix the file permissions with this command: chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vpnserver Press Esc and type :x to save and exit the editor.
Press i to enter INSERT mode and paste the following content in the file. We will do this creating a new file in the /etc/init.d folder: vim /etc/init.d/vpnserver When the installation is complete, we have to make the VPN server run on the boot of the operating system. The final step is to enter in the directory and compile the installation using the following command: cd vpnserver & make You can check and download the latest stable version from the SoftEther website.Īfter successful download, we need to extract the files: tar xvf softether-vpnserver-* NOTICE: This is the URL of the latest version at the time we wrote this article. Now we have to download the VPN software with the following command: wget Run the following command: cd /usr/local/ We will navigate to /usr/local folder, and there we will download the SoftEther's VPN software. In order to prepare your server for the SoftEthers VPN server, you need to run the following commands: yum -y update The first thing you have to do is to enter your server's terminal through SSH.
Server preparation for SoftEther VPN server We chose CentOS for this tutorial because it is the recommended operating system from the SoftEther's team.įeel free to check out the specifications of the SoftEther's VPN server. We will need a CentOS 7 VPS/VDS server where we will install the VPN server. This tutorial should work also on CentOS 8 (AlmaLinux 8 also). Are you concerned about your security and privacy, and you want to access the Internet safely? In this article, we will show how you can setup a SoftEther VPN server on your CentOS 7 server and how to connect it to your devices.
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