Install SoftEther server on Linux CentOS 7.2

Posted On December 5, 2018

We will take a look at hot to install SoftEther VPN on CentOS 7 and connect to it from Windows system running VPN manager.
1. We install CentOS 7 minimal with firewalld and selinux disabled. Make sure gcc is installed with all updates

yum update -y
yum install gcc

2. Download softether-vpnserver* package for Linux and place it in /opt directory on linux server
3. Extract vpn server package

tar xzvf softether-vpnserver-v4.28-9669-beta-2018.09.11-linux-x64-64bit.tar.gz

4. Create executable file

cd /opt/vpnserver/
make 
Do you want to read the License Agreement for this software ?
1. Yes
2. No
Please choose one of above number:
1

Agree to license agreement

5. Move vpnserver directory to /usr/local

cd /opt
mv vpnserver /usr/local/

6. Make sure correct permission are set for all vpn files

cd /usr/local/vpnserver/
chmod 600 *
chmod 700 vpncmd
chmod 700 vpnserver

7. Register startup script

vi /etc/init.d/vpnserver
#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig: 2345 99 01
# description: SoftEther VPN Server
DAEMON=/usr/local/vpnserver/vpnserver
LOCK=/var/lock/subsys/vpnserver
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
$DAEMON start
touch $LOCK
;;
stop)
$DAEMON stop
rm $LOCK
;;
restart)
$DAEMON stop
sleep 3
$DAEMON start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0

8. Change permissions on the script

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vpnserver

9. Allow script to startup automatically

/sbin/chkconfig --add vpnserver

To start service

/etc/init.d/vpnserver start 

You can install VPN-Server manager on any windows system that can be connected to VPN Linux server via IP and start vpn configuration