Open the Windows Explorer and change to the directory C:\\ProgramFiles\Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa\. The Windows version of easy-rsa consists of thirteen files. On Linux systems you will have to check your package management tools to find the right path to the easy-rsa scripts. On Debian Linux you will find them in /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/.

You find there are eight batch files, four configuration files, and a README (which is actually not really helpful). However, we must now create a directory called keys, copy the files serial.start and index.txt.start into it, and rename them to serial and index.txt respectively. The keys and certificates created by easy-rsa will be stored in this directory. These files are used as a database for certificate generation.

Now we let easy-rsa prepare the standard configuration for our certificates. Double-click on the file C:\\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa\init-config.bat or start this batch...