# \[SOLVED\] PiHole via dietpi-software installation issues
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [8 January 2017 16:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868 "2017-01-08T16:13:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Zombievirus](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zombievirus)
#### Post date: [8 January 2017 16:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/1 "2017-01-08T16:13:30Z")
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
```nohighlight
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
```
This worked perfectly without any issues!
You might want to look into this.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@Fourdee](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Fourdee)
#### Post date: [8 January 2017 17:15 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/2 "2017-01-08T17:15:05Z")
Hi Zombie,
Thanks for the report.
Tested with clean install on C2 with dietpi-software, [http://192.168.0.112/pihole](http://192.168.0.112/pihole) working as expected.
Which device was this on? And which webserver choice did you use (default is lighttpd)?
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### Author:  [@Zombievirus](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zombievirus)
#### Post date: [8 January 2017 17:35 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/3 "2017-01-08T17:35:13Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@rothchild](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/rothchild)
#### Post date: [8 January 2017 17:37 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/4 "2017-01-08T17:37:40Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Zombievirus](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zombievirus)
#### Post date: [8 January 2017 18:12 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/5 "2017-01-08T18:12:00Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@rothchild](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/rothchild)
#### Post date: [8 January 2017 19:29 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/6 "2017-01-08T19:29:06Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Fourdee](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Fourdee)
#### Post date: [9 January 2017 16:04 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/7 "2017-01-09T16:04:28Z")
> [@rothchild](#):
>
> 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?
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:
>
After that, during configuration, we symlink /pihole to /html/admin, as per our online doc:
>
As our DietPi web server paths are standardized and relative in /var/www (eg: /var/www/myfolder/website\_1 = [http://ip/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](http://ip/html/admin)
So either of the following will work:
[http://ip/html/admin](http://ip/html/admin)
[http://ip/pihole](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](http://ip/admin)
[https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/703](https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/703)
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### Author:  [@Fourdee](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Fourdee)
#### Post date: [9 January 2017 16:20 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/8 "2017-01-09T16:20:09Z")
> 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.
>
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### Author:  [@Fourdee](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Fourdee)
#### Post date: [9 January 2017 16:24 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/9 "2017-01-09T16:24:04Z")
We’ll inform user of password changed aswell:
[https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/703#issuecomment-271330490](https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/703#issuecomment-271330490)
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### Author:  [@Fourdee](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Fourdee)
#### Post date: [9 January 2017 16:30 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/10 "2017-01-09T16:30:36Z")
Thanks guys,
resolved for v142. Let me know if theres anything else 🙂
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### Author:  [@Zombievirus](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zombievirus)
#### Post date: [11 January 2017 09:02 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/11 "2017-01-11T09:02:55Z")
Perfect!
Thanx Fourdee! I will test it as soon v142 is released and will let you know about the outcome!
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### Author:  [@Zombievirus](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zombievirus)
#### Post date: [16 January 2017 03:28 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-pihole-via-dietpi-software-installation-issues/868/12 "2017-01-16T03:28:49Z")
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…