Restore Pi-Hole Address to /pihole

General Discussion
1

Hey so I just upgraded my pihole to 3.0 and during the installation, I got an error regarding the web UI. after a few minutes of google search, I found out that the solution was to do

git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/adminLTE.git /var/www/html/admin

After doing the line above and repairing the installation, I can only access the pihole dashboard through IP.ADDRESS/admin now instead of IP.ADDRESS/pihole which I really liked.

How can I change it back to /pihole?

Thanks!

2

Hi,

DietPi generates this symlink, we like it too :wink:

		# - Create a symlink so users can use http://ip/pihole
		ln -sf /var/www/html/admin /var/www/pihole

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How did you update PiHole? pihole -up?
3

Sadly the command above didn’t work. I’m still getting a Website Blocked when I try to open /pihole
And yes, I did pihole -up to update it

4

Strange, does it say “Blocked by PiHole”?

Lets check status of /var/www

ls -lha /var/www
ls -lha /var/www/html
5

Yes it does

6

Well thats bizarre, PiHole is blocking our symlink lol.

I couldn’t replicate this on a fresh installation today. So it must be an issue with the blocked sites list, do you have any custom entries?

7

Yes, my adlist contains some of wally3k’s collection of domains https://wally3k.github.io/. All of which worked properly before the upgrade.

I went ahead and backed-up my current list and copied the default one from pi-hole’s github repo https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.default and ran

pihole -g

Sadly there’s no difference with the result

UPDATE:
Tried to reinstall Pi-Hole. After the installation process, IP.ADDRESS/pihole just displays a blank page while IP.ADDRESS/admin shows the admin UI

8

Ok, sounds like the pihole symlink is missing, lets try and recreate it again:

rm -R /var/www/pihole
ln -sf /var/www/html/admin /var/www/pihole

Did you use DietPi-Software to uninstall, then install PiHole again?

9

Did the set of commands, still blank screen. And yes, I did use DietPi-Software to uninstall and reinstall

10

I think your lighttpd.conf has been overwritten during the PiHole update.

Assuming you are using the default Lighttpd webserver on DietPi:

Did you backup your lighttpd.conf before upgrading pihole, as per Updating PiHole::
https://dietpi.com/forum/t/dietpi-survey-information/32/1

If not, reinstall lighttpd to regenerate the config should fix this:

apt-get purge lighttpd -y
dietpi-software reinstall 84
11

Restoring the lighttpd.conf from a previous backup did the trick! Thank you!
Just wondering, I can still access the admin UI via the /admin address. Is that normal?

12

Yes.

root@NanoPi-Neo:~# ls -lah /var/www/
insgesamt 88K
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4,0K Mai  6 16:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root     root     4,0K Mai  6 15:57 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 www-data www-data   19 Mai  6 16:07 admin -> /var/www/html/admin
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data  38K Mär 19 11:06 apc.php
drwxrwxr-x  4 www-data www-data 4,0K Mai  6 16:06 html
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data   68 Mai  6 16:07 index.html
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data 3,3K Mär  4 18:55 index.lighttpd.html
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data  23K Mär 19 11:06 opcache.php
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data   20 Mär 19 11:06 phpinfo.php
lrwxrwxrwx  1 www-data www-data   19 Mai  6 16:07 pihole -> /var/www/html/admin

If you don’t like this, remove the symbolic link:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 www-data www-data   19 Mai  6 16:07 admin -> /var/www/html/admin
13

Ah I see, haven’t really noticed it before. Thanks anyway!