Manual Method to create a unified .ovpn file

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There are five(5) sections to a unified .ovpn file:

1. The OpenVPN client conf section
   • The file is obtained from the Download Client Package (zip) above.
   • Download and copy the .ovpn file to a new file. Let's call it myPhone.ovpn.
   • Scroll to the end of the myPhone.ovpn file add the two lines below:

key-direction bidirectional
<ca>

2. The Root Certificate (ca directive)
   • Open the OpenVPN webpage (Service > OpenVPN), scroll down to the Certificate Authorities and -Keys
   • Download the Root Certificate by clicking on the floppy disk. Locate the cacert.pem file in the Downloads folder.
   • Copy the contents of cacert.pem to end of the myPhone.ovpn
   • Scroll to the end of the myPhone.ovpn file add the two lines below:

</ca>
<cert>

3. The Host Certificate (cert directive)
   • Open the OpenVPN webpage (Service > OpenVPN), scroll down to Certificate Authorities and -Keys
   • Locate the Host Certificate and click on the Show host certificate icon (the blue circle i)
   • Scroll to the bottom of the OpenVPN - Host Certificate webpage
   • Copy all of the lines from -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- to the end
   • Paste those lines at the end of the myPhone.ovpn file
   • Scroll to the end of the myPhone.ovpn file add the two lines below:

</cert>
<key>

4. The Encrypted Private Key (key)
   • The myPhone.p12 file is obtained from the Download Client Package (zip) above.
   • In the terminal, go to the directory where the myPhone.p12 file is located and enter:

PKCS12_PW=<PKCS12 File Password>  # mentioned above in Preparations
openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in iPhone.p12 -passin pass:$PKCS12_PW -passout pass:$PKCS12_PW

4. (continued)
   • Copy all of the lines from -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- to the end
   • Paste those lines at the end of the myPhone.ovpn file
   • Scroll to the end of the myPhone.ovpn file add the two lines below:

</key>
<tls-auth>

5. The TA key (tls-auth)
   • The ta.key file is obtained from the Download Client Package (zip) above.
   • Copy the contents of ta.key to end of the myPhone.ovpn
   • Scroll to the end of the myPhone.ovpn file add the two lines below:

</tls-auth>

To install the .ovpn unified file, follow the steps here.

Done creating the unified ovpn file! The myPhone.ovpn file should look similar to the file below.