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In this post, We will see how to create a free ubuntu VPS server in oracle cloud and configure ubuntu xrdp to access via windows remote desktop connection. Creating Free UBUNTU VPS server in oracle cloud If you don't have Ubuntu VPS running, follow the link below and create the server. Also, You can watch the youtube video tutorial at the end of this post. Create Free VPS in oracle cloud While creating the compute instance, we need to select Canonical Ubuntu in the Operating system image selection below. Follow the below steps once you have the server up and running. Update firewall port configurations for RDP We need to allow connections via port 3389 in oracle cloud subnet configurations for remote desktop connection. To do that, Click 'Public subnet' on the ubuntu instance details page and add a new Ingress rule. Select Default security list. Click the 'Add Ingress rul

SSL certificates are used to secure our website and encrypt the details sent to the server. We will use a free self-signed SSL certificate and configure the SSL certificate using the NGINX web server. We need the oracle Linux cloud instance and NGINX server up and running. This step is prerequisite for this tutorial. Please refer to below link to install the oracle Linux and NGINX server. https://www.tech4learners.com/2022/01/how-to-create-linux-instance-with-24-gb.html https://www.tech4learners.net/2022/01/install-nginx-web-server-in-linux-cloud.html Once your compute instance and NGINX are up and running, proceed with the following steps. First step is to create PRIVATE / PUBLIC keys using the openssl command. We are using the RSA algorithm as an encryption method.  Replace the <IP_ADDRESS> with your Linux instance IP ADDRESS. sudo openssl req -new -x509 -days 30 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private.key \-out public.crt -subj '/C=US/ST=Ca/L=Sunnydale/CN=<IP_ADDRESS>