{"id":1654,"date":"2025-05-18T01:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1654"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:04:13","slug":"manual-setup-for-ubuntu-openvpn","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/manual-setup-for-ubuntu-openvpn\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual Setup for Ubuntu (OpenVPN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have many OpenVPN files, try <a href=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/manual-setup-for-ubuntu-bulk-import\/\">bulk importing them instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1: Download OpenVPN Configuration files from FoxyProxy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t already have OpenVPN config files for your FoxyProxys servers, download them from the <a href=\"https:\/\/getfoxyproxy.org\/panel\/\">FoxyProxy Control Panel<\/a>. Login and select \u201c<strong>Click here to download all Tunneblick\/OpenVPN files as zip<\/strong>.\u201d If you have any trouble downloading the files, contact <a href=\"https:\/\/getfoxyproxy.org\/contact\/\">FoxyProxy Support<\/a> and we\u2019ll be glad to email it to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unzip the files. They files are used in Step 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2: Open Settings -&gt; Network<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several ways to do this. Here is one. Click the network icon in the taskbar, then the gear icon. See the green arrows in this screenshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Network settings can also be opened from the desktop <strong>Show Apps<\/strong> icon and then searching for <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-7.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3: Add a new VPN connection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the <strong>+<\/strong> symbol next to VPN:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-8.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <strong>Import from file&#8230;<\/strong> not <strong>OpenVPN<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"551\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13.png 551w, https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13-50x26.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4: Import the OpenVPN conf files<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select one of the .ovpn files from <strong>Step 1<\/strong>. Enter your FoxyProxy username and password. Click the icon at tthe end of the password field and choose <strong>Store the password only for this user<\/strong>. If you do not choose this, you may be prompted for the password every time your connect to the server. You can optionally change the <strong>Name<\/strong> to something else, if you like. Click the red <strong>Add<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"647\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png 647w, https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15-50x46.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 5: Connect \/ Disconnect<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect or disconnect through the Network Settings screen or the network icon in the taskbar. If you have many servers, not all of them may appear in the taskbar list. However, the Network Settings screen shows all VPN servers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-11.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Network Settings (complete list):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-10.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the connection succeeds, look for the VPN icon in the task bar. You can click it to see which VPN connection is active:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"407\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-16.png 407w, https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-16-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-16-50x34.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have many OpenVPN files, try bulk importing them instead. Step 1: Download OpenVPN Configuration files from FoxyProxy If you don&#8217;t already have OpenVPN config files for your FoxyProxys servers, download them from the FoxyProxy Control Panel. Login and select \u201cClick here to download all Tunneblick\/OpenVPN files as zip.\u201d If you have any trouble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[75],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1654\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.getfoxyproxy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}