it took me a while to realise what had happened - a warning during the setup process at least that vars file needed editing could have save me a lot of time - not to mention failed access with certs for example.com in california -

Mind you i didn't have such issues with the iso vbox install -then setup process and access worked only the VMDK - i had to since host's DVD bailed on me

i recreated the certs easyrsa init-pki etc but i'm somewhat stuck on crl and ccd's jail, specifically chroot

../

missing both directories

server.ccd* > /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/crl.jail*/etc/..

server won't start even when commenting out the options in server.conf

I have adjusted the paths of new certs in server.conf too