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Comment on Setting up a VPN-server on Amazon EC2 by Paul

Paul — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:19:39 +0000

That did the trick, much appreciated!

Comment on Setting up a VPN-server on Amazon EC2 by Peter

Peter — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:14:27 +0000

Seems to be a permission problem. Try enabling write access via

sudo chmod a+rw /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

Keep in mind that the file will have read/write access for everyone after this change.

Comment on Setting up a VPN-server on Amazon EC2 by Paul

Paul — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:09:49 +0000

Hi and thanks for the post.
I have a question re adding user/pass. I keep getting
“-bash: /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied”
when running the command
sudo echo “paulxxxxx pptpd xxxxxxx *” >> /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

any ideas? I’ve used a fresh instance of the same AMI as mentioned in the top of the post.

Thanks in advance

Comment on Setting up a VPN-server on Amazon EC2 by Peter

Peter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:31:26 +0000

Actually, you need to use http, not https in the link.

Comment on Setting up a VPN-server on Amazon EC2 by tableau

tableau — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:05:30 +0000

nice post!
i cant share this link : https://www.dikant.de/2010/10/08/setting-up-a-vpn-server-on-amazon-ec2
am i doing it wrong ?

Comment on Configuring a PPTP-VPN on iOS and Android by Peter

Peter — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:56:43 +0000

Wow, great advice! Thanks a lot.

Comment on Configuring a PPTP-VPN on iOS and Android by Junky Jim

Junky Jim — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:55:45 +0000

Ok I figured out the issue with some HTTPS sites not loading:

Run:

sudo iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp –tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS –clamp-mss-to-pmtu

and add it to rc.local as well before exit.

Restart PPTPd and it should work fine. )

Comment on Setting up a VPN-server on Amazon EC2 by Junky Jim

Junky Jim — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:43:57 +0000

There seems to be an issue with HTTPS sites. For example, when I go to skype and click on Sign Up, the page never loads up properly.

Seems like some kind of HTTPS traffic is being blocked. I read somewhere about MTU and all, but cant make any sense out of it. If you have any suggestions then do let me know. Regards

Comment on Configuring a PPTP-VPN on iOS and Android by michael shaulov

michael shaulov — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:14:30 +0000

After long hours of debugging I’ve figured out that this setup will not always work on Android phones.
You should turn-off encryption or use some other type of VPN (not PPTP).
Read more at the following blogs:
http://doandroids.com/Apps/OneVpn/how-to/servers/

Comment on Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache by Michael

Michael — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:13:06 +0000

Awesome tutorial! Thank you! I had some problems getting everything up and running, but if it wasn’t for your help I would have gotten started..