Sometimes port 1194 is blocked if you are behind a corporate firewall or someother firewall. The trick is then to use a port that is open. If you are not running https on your amahi, using port 443 is a good choice.
To move to port 443 on Amahi systems built on ?????? (Fedora) edit this file
{{Code|gedit /etc/openvpn/amahi.conf}}
or
{{Code|sudo nano -w /etc/openvpn/amahi.conf}}
To move to port 443 on Amahi systems built on (Ubuntu 12.04 ) edit this file
{{Code|gedit /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf}}
or