Create Your Own Free VPN | WireGuard Setup Tutorial

today we are going to set up our own

wireguard server wireguard is free open

source VPN software and by hosting this

on a free virtual machine you can

effectively get your own free VPN you

can get a free virtual machine either

from Oracle Cloud's free tier or from

Google Cloud's free tier and you can

connect your wireguard client from any

Windows device Mac device iOS Android or

Linux to effectively give you a free VPN

on any of your devices to get your free

virtual machine head to oracle.com Cloud

slash free or cloud.google.com free or

if you don't trust Google or Oracle and

don't mind paying a few dollars you

could try rack nerd now they allow you

to sign up using cryptocurrency so if

you want that extra level of privacy

I've got a link in the description where

you can check out rack nerd but for this

demonstration I'll use Oracle so go

ahead and sign up for free and I'll go

ahead and meet you in the dashboard and

let's build this thing

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okay once we've signed up and logged

into Oracle we are using our free tier

account here and under get started let's

scroll down to create a VM instance and

I'm going to call this one yguard under

name and from here we choose our image

and shape so by default it's on Oracle

Linux we can choose a different

operating system if we like for example

I'll go with Ubuntu and 1804 that's what

I'll go with here you can actually use

any of the supportive distributions here

in the documentation I'll link to that

on my blog in the description but for

this demo I'll use Ubuntu and go ahead

and select that image and for the shape

I'll leave it on the default always free

eligible AMD micro there that's going to

work just fine for networking we can

click edit there and we can choose if

we've already used this before we can

use an existing virtual Cloud network if

you haven't used it before you can go

ahead and create a virtual Cloud Network

it'll give a default name and a default

subnet name there either way it's cool

and now we want to using SSH key so we

can generate one I'm going to paste one

in and I like to use putty to generate

keys so you can get that at putty.org

for free there so party comes with

puttygen that's what I'm going to use to

generate my key so click generate wiggle

the mouse in there for generating random

data and that will create our key so

that'll come up in just a second

and let's go ahead and save that public

key I'll call that wireguard and save

that in and save our private key as well

we can click yes there if you'd like to

add a password you can do that here as

well and why God private there we go and

we can actually just copy this uh public

key from the screen there just go ahead

and copy it and you can paste it

straight in there and that should be all

good of course you don't have to use

putty there's plenty of other methods to

generate SSH keys but that's basically

it we click create now we can see our

instance is provisioning in a second

we'll get our public ip4 address then we

can go ahead and connect to the VM all

right so that took about a minute and

we've got our public IP address there

let's copy that one this one's green

it's running let's go ahead and run

putty let's connect to that address so

our host name is going to be the IP

address that we just generated there on

rvm and Ubuntu is the username at the

address there I'm going to say this as

wireguard tutorial and click save there

and then under SS page let's go ahead

and find that key for authentication

that's the private key we saved earlier

so we can just browse to that key that's

the one I saved it as wireguard private

there and let's go back to session and

I'm going to save that again and we can

go ahead and open that

and click accept

and it should connect to our virtual

machine now

there we go first thing Let's do let's

change the super user so sudo Su Dash

here we go and then we've got a few

commands to install wireguard so I'm

going to put all this over on my blog

you can just copy and paste it from

there and the first thing is to get the

install script next thing is to change

the permissions on that

and then go ahead and install using the

script

Bang

and now it's asking for our public IP

address we have to change this to our

public IP address that's that one there

so after copying our VM IP address we

can delete that one and then right click

to paste and Posse you can paste in our

public IP address the rest of this will

leave us default so press enter enter

enter enter enter enter and enter and

enter and that's about it make a note of

this port because we're gonna have to

open this on our virtual Cloud Network

in just a second so highlighting it

actually copies it to our clipboard we

can use that in just a second

enter here enter again and now it looks

like it's doing its thing installing

away here while this is installing let's

go ahead and open up that port in our

virtual Cloud Network so under our

instance details here we can go to our

virtual Cloud Network there click that

one

and then we click the subnet and then we

click our default security list and then

we have to add the Ingress rule here so

it's

0.0.0.0 zero there TCP and the

destination Port is that one we copied

from our install and I'm going to put

yguard in here just so I can remember

that this port is for wireguard and add

that on

and we're going to do the same thing

again uh 0.0.0.0 this time it's going to

be UDP

there we go

oh it's the same there

in my case it's five nine seven five

seven but yours might be a little

different it's going to pick a random

port in in a certain range there for you

so why card in there and add that one on

there as well so we should get our two

wire guard ports opened up here let's

check how our install is going there

it's asking for our client name we can

give this any name we want so I'll call

it idea spot and the rest of this is

just enter enter and now we've got a QR

code we can actually uh take a

screenshot of this because you can

actually get the Y guide app on your

mobile devices use the camera on the

mobile app and that will link your

mobile device to your VPN with that code

and the other way we can do this on our

PC is we can get our conf file it's

under root

client ids.conf in my case so we can

have a look at that file and get the

config that we need but to view that

file all I'll do is type cat and then

paste that path in there and so cat

and then that one there so root wgo

client ids.conf and that's going to

display the info we need so all the

stuff in here is what we're going to use

to duplicate this conf file on our PC so

I'm going to copy that and then in

notepad let's just paste it in there and

then let's save this as the conf file so

I'm going to save it as type all files

here or files and I'll call this uh idea

dot conf so that's the config file that

we use in our why guide client on our PC

so why God has clients for Windows Mac

Ubuntu Android iOS devices here I'm

using Windows in this example so I'll

download the windows installer and after

running that installer you'll get your

app the app looks like this it'll say

wireguard import the tunnel from the

file and that is the idea cons file that

I just created in my situation and there

we go so that's loaded in and we just

click activate and if we're lucky this

should connect and so this looks like

it's running just fine if we go to

Google and type just what's my IP

we should actually get our public IP

address will show as our virtual machine

address so that means our VPN is working

just fine yeah the tool is what's my

ip.com you can see my machine is in

Phoenix Arizona I'm actually in

Australia so this is working quite well

and Oracle is my ISP obviously because

I'm using Oracle cloud

but that basically wraps it up

wireguard's been working really well for

me since I tested it on Windows I've

also used it on iOS as well both have

been really fine using that QR code like

I showed earlier on the camera was easy

to load that onto the wireguard app but

the other way I've used a free VPN on

Oracle ears using openvpn and I've done

a tutorial on that I'll link to that in

the screen at the end screen here so you

can check that one out see which one you

prefer Some people prefer wireguard Some

people prefer openvpn but both have been

just fine in my case so let me know know

what you think in the comments thanks

for watching I'll see you next time