1

My openvpn server running on CentOS 7, I've got 20 or so users with modern IOS devices half with iOS 11. We generate .ovpn scripts with python, and used iTunes to configure the IOS OpenVPN client, until Apple broke it.

As of iTunes 12.7, all features for managing apps have been removed. In particular, users cannot use iTunes to load files into particular apps. These was the recommended way to install ovpn files into OpenVPN for iOS. Older versions of iTunes retain this functionality, but it is not compatible with devices newer than iPhone 5, iPad Air. So now what do I do? I'm going try to serve via apache http, because I saw a post that hinted that you can configure MIME metadata to get iOS safari to open a file in OpenVPN. I've never seen that work, so I'm skeptical.

Any other ideas?

Improve this question

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
1

You can do this via Dropbox. On the iOS device open the Dropbox app, select the file and then export. choose the option Open In and then Copy to OpenVPN.

Improve this answer
2
  • Looks like this will work! I downloaded "Linux Dropbox Uploader" from github, jumped through a few easy hoops, and used the bash script to upload a test file through Dropbox into OpenVPN. It's not ideal for managing lots of users, but it's workable. Thanks!
    – Charlweed
    Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 3:09
  • Dropbox uploaded is at andreafabrizi.it/2016/01/01/Dropbox-Uploader
    – Charlweed
    Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 3:10

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .