Long shot, but Gluetun with Hotspot Shield VPN?
reddit / selfhosted

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-03 22:28

Given I've tried googling this question and can't find anything very
meaningful, this is a long shot - but has anyone got Hotspot Shield
VPN working with Gluetun? It's not one of Gluetun's listed providers
which is surprising as it's fairly widely-used.

I have a free Hotspot premium account that I got as part of Dashlane
premium, but I'm also paying for Mullvad just to use with Gluetun,
which seems like an unecessary expense given I already have one that
works fine.

Any pointers or knowledge on how to make it work? There's only been a
[single
conversation](https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/discussions/917) about
it on the Gluetun GH and it seems to be a bit tricky to make work for
some reason.

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emprahsFury · 2023-10-04 00:41

Seems like you already know got to configure it. It's just a broken
implementation on either gluetun or HS

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lilolalu · 2023-10-04 07:47

What part of this is self hosted?

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-04 07:48

well, gluetun is self-hosted, and i want to try and make this work for
use on my other self-hosted services

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-04 07:48

oh that GH thread isn't me, i just found it and didn't really
understand most of it

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lilolalu · 2023-10-04 07:56

It's a dockerized VPN _CLIENT_, right?

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-04 07:57

ok mate

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SharkyRekin · 2023-10-04 08:36

So I managed to do it for me, you need to create a new router password
and username in your Hotspot Shield VPN (you’ll find it in the web
account access not in the app) and it will give you a OpenVPN file
configuration. After that you need to remove some line in the file
that block Gluetun (can’t remember which one I’ll try to find).
Then if I remember correctly if just a custom VPN configuration in
Gluetun.

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-04 08:37

oh amazing, thanks! if you get a chance to dig out the details i'd
hugely appreciate it

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SharkyRekin · 2023-10-04 08:37

I’ll try to find the details !

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-04 08:38

you star

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SharkyRekin · 2023-10-04 09:04

You can use this page on the wiki to help you :
[https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/openvpn-
configuration-file.md](https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-
wiki/blob/main/setup/openvpn-configuration-file.md)

After some digging on my install I may have given you a bad info you
don't need to remove anything in the conf file (I removed it on the
original post).

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Sphyix · 2023-10-08 14:35

I think that any provider works with gluetun as long as you have a
.ovpn config file, username and password.

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Embeco · 2023-10-17 19:34

Have you ever figured it out? I am struggling with a "certificate
verify failed" error on the way

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CrispyBegs · 2023-10-17 19:45

i haven't tried it yet but i will when i get a chance