[SOLVED] PiHole via dietpi-software installation issues

Zombievirus · 8 January 2017 16:13

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know there might be a problem with installing PiHole from dietpi-software!

I tried to get it to work using dietpi-software but it just didn’t work.

I tried multiple clean installs but had no success! It was constantly giving me a 404 Error when i tried to access the admin page.

Then i tried to install it using

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

This worked perfectly without any issues!

You might want to look into this.

Regards.

Fourdee · 8 January 2017 17:15

Hi Zombie,

Thanks for the report.

Tested with clean install on C2 with dietpi-software, http://192.168.0.112/pihole working as expected.

Which device was this on? And which webserver choice did you use (default is lighttpd)?

Zombievirus · 8 January 2017 17:35

It was a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B

I tried for more than 2 Hours with multiple clean installs but it didn’t work.

Then using the official method without dietpi-software, it worked first time without any issues.

rothchild · 8 January 2017 17:37

Were you using /admin or /pihole?

At first I tried /admin and got a 404 then realised that it’s actually /pihole and everything worked fine

Zombievirus · 8 January 2017 18:12

i was using /admin

This is what the installer told me to do!

I had no idea about /pihole

I guess that was the issue!

with the official installation method it works with /admin

EDIT:

I just checked the DietPi Software Thread here in the Forum and there it also states that it should be /pihole.

so my fault. i should have double checked!

rothchild · 8 January 2017 19:29

I think it’s a fair confusion, as you say the installer also says it will be at /admin and also spits out a password (which is useless because the password by default is dietpi…) potentially there could be a couple of bits of tidying to this install to make it clear how the DP version differs from the main version?

Fourdee · 9 January 2017 16:04

Yep, no worries.

Ok so theres a few adjusments we make, mostly to allow for multiple use of the web server, not dedicated it to PiHole, and, prevent PiHole from overwriting the current lighttpd.conf:

github.com

Fourdee/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi-software#L3700-L3708


      
          			# Assure that mod_php is purged in favour of PHP-FPM
          			G_AGP 'libapache2-mod-php*'
          			G_EXEC rm -Rf /{etc/php,var/lib/php/modules}/*/apache2
          
          			# PHP-FPM
          			if (( ${aSOFTWARE_INSTALL_STATE[83]} > 0 || ${aSOFTWARE_INSTALL_STATE[84]} > 0 || ${aSOFTWARE_INSTALL_STATE[85]} > 0 ))
          			then
          				# Optimisations based on total cores
          				G_CONFIG_INJECT 'pm.max_children[[:blank:]=]' "pm.max_children = $(( $G_HW_CPU_CORES * 3 ))" "/etc/php/$PHP_VERSION/fpm/pool.d/www.conf"

After that, during configuration, we symlink /pihole to /html/admin, as per our online doc:

github.com

Fourdee/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi-software#L7230-L7243


      
          			# TigerVNC: Set control + read-only passwords
          			if [[ ${aSOFTWARE_INSTALL_STATE[28]} == 1 && ! -f '/root/.vnc/passwd' ]]
          			then
          				[[ -d '/root/.vnc' ]] || G_EXEC mkdir /root/.vnc
          				tigervncpasswd -f <<< "$GLOBAL_PW
          $GLOBAL_PW" > /root/.vnc/passwd
          				G_EXEC chmod 600 /root/.vnc/passwd
          			fi
          
          			# RealVNC: Set virtual + shared desktop passwords, repeat virtual password command two times: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/4679#issuecomment-908196511
          			if [[ ${aSOFTWARE_INSTALL_STATE[120]} == 1 && ! -s '/root/.vnc/config.d/Xvnc' ]]
          			then
          				vncpasswd -virtual <<< "$GLOBAL_PW
          $GLOBAL_PW"

As our DietPi web server paths are standardized and relative in /var/www (eg: /var/www/myfolder/website_1 = http://ip/myfolder/website_1), the actual location of the PiHole web page (via the official installer) is /var/www/html/admin and therefor the link is http://ip/html/admin

So either of the following will work:
http://ip/html/admin
http://ip/pihole

But I will update the code to create a symlink so the following also works, to prevent this occurring again:
http://ip/admin

https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/703

Fourdee · 9 January 2017 16:20

Your Admin Webpage login password is 1XR2_UbZ

Also looks like this a new addition. Previously, no password was set for the web interface, hence we do it during install and set to dietpi after PiHole installer is finished.

github.com

Fourdee/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi-software#L7250-L7251


      
          		if To_Install 73 fail2ban # Fail2Ban
          		then

Fourdee · 9 January 2017 16:24

We’ll inform user of password changed aswell:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/703#issuecomment-271330490

Fourdee · 9 January 2017 16:30

Thanks guys,

resolved for v142. Let me know if theres anything else

Zombievirus · 11 January 2017 09:02

Perfect!

Thanx Fourdee! I will test it as soon v142 is released and will let you know about the outcome!

Zombievirus · 16 January 2017 03:28

Hi,

After v142 was released, i did another clean install of DietPi and chose PiHole installation in dieti-software.

Now everything works flawlessly out of the box.

/pihole and /admin both work without any issues.

Great Work as always FourDee.

Now i need to go and annoy the PiHole developers in order to get them to block social media buttons…