DIY VPN Pritunl Setup Tutorial

triplegunner · January 15, 2020

On 1/3/2020 at 6:27 AM, captain_to_fire said:

Pft. @wkdpaul's VPN server is simpler imo

OpenVPN has a lot of issues and it's a really bloated VPN compared to other better solutions.. Like Wireguard. Also, OpenVPN requires a lot more setup under the hood than what ppl realize.

Nico_Wdg · January 15, 2020

Thanks for this How Too !

I was waiting for it for a long time.

I have at home a Open Media Vault server, is there a way to use Pritunl on this machine ?

Guxim · January 15, 2020

I've installed CentOS 7 on a vm, I can ping the IP of the server, and connect to it usisng ssh, but i can't open the web UI in the browser, to access the Pritunl. I have no idea what to do.

isXander · January 15, 2020

i cant get the web panel to work! help!!

fldujit · January 16, 2020

On 1/14/2020 at 12:38 PM, LePygargueATeteBlanche said:

Both can do the trick (with maybe a bit of adaptation from the tutorial).

In this case I believe CentOS is recommended as it this pretty lightweight and will not cause higher bills on the VPS.

I tried both and noticed that on Debian 9 I would run out of RAM on a 512MB instance, where as on CentOS it would run fine.

siliconcupcake · January 16, 2020

On 1/15/2020 at 6:24 AM, Venty said:

Just gone through it myself, using Nginx though.

Well, you can set it up using this guide.

I went ahead and used port 88 (with ssl disabled in pritunl) and setup up a reverse proxy in Nginx (so it uses the proper certificate I already have set-up).

Also, you might have to also set the Host header, not just the X-Forward ones.

Thank you so much. This was very helpful and exactly what I was looking for

Bob_SaintClar · January 16, 2020

Hey, I cannot type the server password when in Putty, it just doesn't show anything even when I copy paste, same thing when trying to do it via windows cmd :(

luis_erasmo · January 16, 2020

On 1/13/2020 at 5:26 PM, Mqxi said:

Getting a 404 error when I try to run the command:


sudo yum -y install pritunl

I've simply copy-pasted all the above commands shown in the documentation. Here's the full error:

[quark@vultr ~]$ sudo yum -y install pritunl
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/x86_64/metalink | 29 kB 00:00:00
* base: mirror.prolocation.net
* epel: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* extras: ams.edge.kernel.org
* updates: mirror.1000mbps.com
base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
extras | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
mongodb-org-4.0 | 2.5 kB 00:00:00
pritunl | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
updates | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
pritunl/primary_db FAILED
https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/centos/7/repodata/e2a8a9331d3d1a2e1fe3b783de655f8703ca88318d0d279b5f5a7fa8cf46352d-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article

https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors

If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please use https://bugs.centos.org/.

pritunl/primary_db FAILED
https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/centos/7/repodata/e2a8a9331d3d1a2e1fe3b783de655f8703ca88318d0d279b5f5a7fa8cf46352d-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/centos/7/repodata/e2a8a9331d3d1a2e1fe3b783de655f8703ca88318d0d279b5f5a7fa8cf46352d-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.

One of the configured repositories failed (Pritunl Repository),
and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
packages for the previous distribution release still work).

3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
yum --disablerepo=pritunl ...

4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum
will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

yum-config-manager --disable pritunl
or
subscription-manager repos --disable=pritunl

5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
compromise:

yum-config-manager --save --setopt=pritunl.skip_if_unavailable=true

failure: repodata/e2a8a9331d3d1a2e1fe3b783de655f8703ca88318d0d279b5f5a7fa8cf46352d-primary.sqlite.bz2 from pritunl: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/centos/7/repodata/e2a8a9331d3d1a2e1fe3b783de655f8703ca88318d0d279b5f5a7fa8cf46352d-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Thanks!

same problem here

do you solved?

rgrist15 · January 16, 2020

What’s is the vps used for and do I need one if I’m creating my own vpn on centos

Bijai · January 17, 2020

I had issues with connecting with OpenVPN client on android.

The workaround is to use TCP port instead of UDP port.

On the Vultr's Firewall group > change UDP port 1337 to TCP port 1337
On the Pritunl console > delete the existing server and create another with the same configs except change the protocol to 'tcp' instead of udp

You will have to download the profile again, and it works flawlessly !

Awesome guide btw !!

misterb66 · January 17, 2020

Hey Linus !!

So I setup the VPN with Pritunl on a VPS with Vultr.com. All went well, no issues Testing at the moment..streaming , downloading browsing... so far so good . Im so glad to get away from PIA

Yup...awesome guide !!

Peace to you

B.

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3thanK · January 18, 2020

On 1/13/2020 at 8:26 PM, Mqxi said:

Getting a 404 error when I try to run the command:


sudo yum -y install pritunl