This tutorials will help you to install PPTP vpn on Xen vps.
PPTP installation:
Debian
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apt-get install pptp |
CentOS
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yum -y install pptp |
Configuration:
Open /etc/pptpd.conf and add following 2 lines
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nano -w /etc/pptpd.conf |
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localip 123.123.123.123 remoteip 192.168.1.1-200 |
Replace 123.123.123.123 with public ip of your vps
Now open /etc/ppp/options.pptpd and add dns server ip
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ms-dns 8.8.8.8 |
8.8.8.8 is google public dns, you can use your host dns server or opendns dns ips
Now set client username/password to connect to your vpn. For this, open /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and add your vpn client username and password in following format
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username TAB pptp TAB password TAB* |
Press TAB button where TAB in above command
If you want to assign a static ip to your customer, then you can add this ip at the end instead of *
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username TAB pptp TAB password TAB 192.168.1.33 |
Your pptp vpn is ready to use, but now you need to enable ipv4 forwarding in your vps
Open /etc/sysctl.conf and uncomment
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net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 |
Run
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sysctl -p |
And add iptables rules to forward traffic of local ips to Internet gateway which is the public ip of your vps
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iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE |
Start pptpd service
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/etc/init.d/pptpd start |
Now configure your vpn client and try to connect it and enjoy happy connecting 🙂
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