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Add port sharing example to tcp doc

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Nicolas Duchon 2017-11-23 21:38:52 +01:00
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Note that you will need to configure client connections manually. At this time it is not possible to generate a client config that will automatically fall back to the TCP connection.
## Forward HTTP/HTTPS connection to another TCP port
You might run into cases where you want your OpenVPN server listening on TCP port 443 to allow connection behind a restricted network, but you already have a webserver on your host running on that port. OpenVPN has a built-in option named `port-share` that allow you to proxy incoming traffic that isn't OpenVPN protocol to another host and port.
First, change the listening port of your existing webserver (for instance from 443 to 4433).
Then initialize the data container by specifying the TCP protocol, port 443 and the port-share option:
docker run -v $OVPN_DATA:/etc/openvpn --rm kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_genconfig \
-u tcp://VPN.SERVERNAME.COM:443 \
-e 'port-share VPN.SERVERNAME.COM 4433'
Then proceed to initialize the pki, create your users and start the container as usual.
This will proxy all non OpenVPN traffic incoming on TCP port 443 to TCP port 4433 on the same host. This is currently only designed to work with HTTP or HTTPS protocol.