How to change OpenVPN server address?

Question

Currently my openvpn server has ip address 10.8.0.1. I want to change it to 10.9.0.1. I tried changing the following lines in server.conf

# Configure server mode and supply a VPN subnet
# for OpenVPN to draw client addresses from.
# The server will take 10.8.0.1 for itself,
# the rest will be made available to clients.
# Each client will be able to reach the server
# on 10.8.0.1. Comment this line out if you are
# ethernet bridging. See the man page for more info.
server 10.9.0.0 255.255.255.0

But when I restart OpenVPN it is still getting the address 10.8.0.1. Is this the right way to do it?

Answer 1

You're doing it all right. Make sure that this address is not overridden later in the configuration file.

You should restart openVPN by executing:

sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn restart

Restarting server.conf only is possible with:

sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn restart server