Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are essential tools for enhancing your online privacy and security. V2Ray is a popular choice, known for its versatility and strong encryption. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of connecting to a Secologist V2Ray VPN on your Linux device.
Prerequisites for V2Ray VPN on Windows
Before we begin, ensure you have the following:
V2Ray Server Details: You need the server address, port, user ID, and additional configuration details provided by your V2Ray service provider. You can buy an Anonymous V2Ray Subscription or set up your server following our post on Medium.
A Windows Device: This tutorial is applicable for Ubuntu and Debian, however, you can follow the same for all other Linux distributions.
Please ensure your system timezone settings are set automatically and correctly.
Please set your system timezone settings automatically and correctly to avoid SSL-related errors.
Subscription Profiles for V2Ray VPN
Once you purchase our subscription, you will receive a link with the list of your available profiles/servers, including the V2Ray subscription URL, which will be used to auto-import all provided servers.
Install and Configuring Windows V2Ray VPN Client Application
V2Ray Core + V2RayA - Linux V2Ray VPN Client
You can follow the simple steps below to utilize V2Ray Core and V2RayA, import your V2Ray VPN Profiles, and enjoy surfing the internet with speed, security, and privacy.
Install both applications on your Linux machine. You can download the binaries from their website or GitHub or run this simple script to install the latest versions for you. You must run this script as root to be able to install the packages. You can do that with the following command line: chmod +x install-v2ray.sh; sudo ./install-v2ray.sh
The service starts the V2RayA service automatically; if you are installing them manually, please run these commands in your terminal: sudo bash -c "systemctl start v2raya.service && systemctl enable v2raya.service".
Now you can access V2RayA via http://127.0.0.1:2017.
Create a user with a strong password for your client application; this is only used for accessing the V2RayA web interface.
Now, you can import your connection profiles or subscriptions by copying them, then clicking on the "Import" on the top right and pasting them. Lastly, click on "confirm" to save them.
Once you import all of the profiles, you can select any connection profile by switching between subscription and server tabs. The selected profile will be highlighted after selection.
Click on the menu icon on the top right, then click on Setting.
Check the configuration settings to ensure they are correct, and click on "Save and Apply".
Select all profiles, click "PING" to find the best server with the lowest latency, de-select all, and select the best server you want to connect to.
On the top left, click "Ready" to connect to the VPN server, and it will change to "Running" once it's connected.
To use the tunnel globally, you need to set the socks proxy on as the system proxy on Linux; click on the settings and then click on "Address and Ports" to get the local proxy address and ports.
Click on your network and then settings. Click on the setting icon in the network proxy section, then enter the address and port number for the socks proxy that you got in the previous step. Later, you can disable the global tunneling by returning to this section and changing the network proxy setting to "Disabled".
To confirm your connection, you can visit iplocation.io and check your IP.
