Help

Guides for different situations: they will help you get started, find your way around the service, and move on to the more advanced ways of using it.

• Lopux-VPN on a computer: from the download to the first connection

  This guide is for someone who has nothing yet: no app, no account. It walks through the whole path on Windows and macOS — download the app, create an account, get your config, import it, and connect. It takes about ten minutes.

• Lopux-VPN on Android: from the download to the first connection

  This guide is for someone starting with nothing: no app, no account. It walks the whole path on an Android phone — download the app, install it past two warnings that are supposed to appear, create an account, get your config, import it, and connect. It takes about ten minutes.

• Split tunnelling: choosing what goes through the VPN

  Normally everything your device sends goes through the tunnel. Split tunnelling lets you carve out exceptions — a banking app that distrusts foreign addresses, a printer on your own network, a work tool that only answers locally.

• Turning on Lopux-Internet in the desktop app

  Beside the ordinary internet we run one of our own, with names like mysite.lopux that no public DNS knows. This guide turns it on in the desktop app: what the app asks permission for, what that permission can and cannot do, and how to take it back.

• Turning on Lopux-Internet on Android

  Beside the ordinary internet we run one of our own, with names like mysite.lopux that no public DNS knows. This guide turns it on in the Android app.

• Opening our sites when the VPN will not connect

  Lopux-Internet normally works through the tunnel: the app looks a name up and checks its key over the VPN. This guide turns on the other way — our sites opening with Lopux-VPN off — for the days when the tunnel does not come up at all.

• Opening our sites on a phone, with no VPN and nothing to install

  The app carries a small browser of its own, and it is the shortest way to our sites on Android: it needs no VPN, no account and no certificate installed in the phone. Install the app and it works.

• Our sites in Chrome and every other app on Android

  The app's own browser is the short way to our sites and needs nothing installed. This page is the other way: making our names work everywhere on the phone — in Chrome, in any app that opens a link.

• When our sites stop loading half-way

  Some networks let a connection start and then stop it after the first few kilobytes. What you see is not an error page: the text arrives, a picture stops midway, the next click does nothing. It looks like a broken site or a slow connection, and it is neither.

• Registering a name in Lopux-Internet

  Beside the ordinary internet we run one of our own, with names that exist nowhere else. This guide walks a name's whole life, from creation to deletion: we claim a name, add records to it, then remove them all and give the name back. It assumes you already have an account; if you do not, start with the first guide.

• Putting your own site on a .lopux name

  You have a name in Lopux-Internet; this guide puts a real website behind it, reachable by anyone using the app. If you have no name yet, register one first.

If something here does not match what you see

The app and this site change. Go by the names in the text: a button is called that in your language too, even where a picture beside it shows the English interface.

Write to us

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