Lately I’ve been working on a project where security is very important. In order to connect to the hosting provider I needed to use a specific VPN provided by FortiNet. What’s interesting about this VPN solution is that apparently it uses HTTPS. this gave me the idea to look for a solution like this for me as well, but I did not want to rent another public IP just for a VPN.

On some articles I read that OpenVPN would be capable to “share” the port 443 with the web server/reverse proxy, etc. Truth be told it’s actually OpenVPN listening on 443 and forwarding all the requests that it does not understand to the web server wich is actually made to listen on another port.

And it works fine, after setting it up Qualy’s SSL test is still validating my web server as A+.The next step is to test the VPN solution from behind a very restrictive firewall. I hope to...