Can't get Pihole Working

Troubleshooting
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I just switched to DietPi from Raspian and have everything I need working great except for Pihole.

I’ve followed the DietPi instructions to the letter and can access the Pihole admin page via PI-ipaddress/admin (PI-ipaddress/pihole doesn’t work). I didn’t set a static IP in the config since my router provides a static IP to the PI based on its MAC address. Finally, I uncommented the DNS nameserver line and pointed it to my ISP DNS (Comcast).

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

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Hi,

Sounds like you may have installed PiHole using their curl based installer at some point? As their installer does not have a uninstaller (as far as I know), its most likely left configurations and settings on your system which are affecting the DietPi optimized installer.

Either way, lets try reinstalling PiHole:

  • Install PiHole through DietPi-Software.
  • uninstall PiHole through dietpi-uninstall, then reboot. This should completely remove any PiHole settings/files etc.
  • reinstall PiHole DietPi-Software.

I did a fresh installation through DietPi-Software and it works straight away with access to ip/pihole running on Lighttpd.

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If problems persist, let us know.

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Thanks for the info.

I did a clean install of DietPi, updated it, and then installed PiHole. Now I can access the admin page at Pi-ipaddress/pihole.

However, it doesn’t seem to be actually working. If I go to a page with ads, they are all still there. My router DNS points to the Pi.

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On the client system (assuming its windows), do the following to check current DNS:
WIN_KEY + R
cmd
ipconfig

If your using DHCP on the client machine, you might need to reconnect the network (and/or reboot), before the new DNS set in the router will be provided.