Adding wildcard fails - Apache

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Expected Behaviour:

Wildcard is successfully added and blocked

Actual Behaviour:

Unable to add regex "(^|.)actionclassicgames.com$" to /etc/pihole/regex.list
Error message: file_put_contents(/etc/pihole/regex.list): failed to open stream:

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/5le0e4t1vj

Notes:

I have tried the steps from this issue with no luck: Buggy regex.list

I am also using apache 2 instead of lighttpd if it makes a difference.

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Why are you manually editing that file?

Edit: Oh, looks like your apache2 doesn't have the ability to access that file.

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If I may ask how do I give apache permissions without messing up perms for something else? Preferably without setting perms to 0777.

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I don't know, don't have an answer for that.

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Ok. Thank you for the explanation though. To anyone curious after this "chmod 0777 /etc/pihole/regex.list" does fix the issue.

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Afaik you cant add a group to a group. Also the group webserver does not exist. I have checked which user apache is running from and it is pi. I tried to add pi the the group pihole and ensured that i made the file owned by user and group pihole. This still causes the error though so im not sure what else to do.

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At the time I was under the impression that www-data is the group apache uses but setting the file to be owned by pihole:www-data didnt help either.

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There's no official support for alternate web servers like apache or nginx, but you may still have a read through a community created guide on Configuring NGINX for Pi-hole and try to draw what analogies you can for your apache installation.

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I am unable to reproduce this answer. I am unsure how you added on group to another without just adding each user. As stated previously I did try and give www-data perms by using pihole:www-data but it didnt make a difference.

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usermod -a -G www-data pihole should only add the user www-data however this with permision 664 with is rw-rw-r rather than 644 which is rw-r-r did do the job. Thank you for all of your help it is much appriciated.

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