[SOLVED] PiHole via dietpi-software installation issues

[Zombievirus]

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

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

This worked perfectly without any issues!

You might want to look into this.

Regards.

[Fourdee]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/ ... 3700-L3708

After that, during configuration, we symlink /pihole to /html/admin, as per our online doc:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/ ... 7230-L7243

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]

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.
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/ ... 7250-L7251

[Fourdee]

We'll inform user of password changed aswell:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issue ... -271330490

[Fourdee]

Thanks guys,

resolved for v142. Let me know if theres anything else