My admin console became inaccessible through browser after PiVPN installation. Pi-Hole continues to work, but web GUI is not working. I have installed PiVPN with Wireguard option, DNS requests through VPN goes to PiHole.
I have not yet set up any user for VPN.
Web access seems to stop working during installation process of PiVPN somwhere during lines:
That is expected as dietpi-software stops non-essential services during installs, in this case the webserver that serves the Pi-hole web interface. pihole-FTL is not stopped as it might be used by the server itself for DNS resolution (although not recommended) and it has only minor impact on system resources.
However, after the install has finished, and in case the reboot was done, webserver should be started backup.
The debug token contains that check: the Lighttpd status: systemctl status lighttpd
If it indeed isn't active, more logs can be found via: cat /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
When you paste webserver logs here, be sure to make remote/identifying IPs, hostnames etc anonym .
When installation process is complete, installer invokes reboot, but apparently that reboot isn't enough. @Michalng you are right, after another manual full shutdown web console is back up. Thank you for your help.
Strange that the first reboot didn't do the job already but great that it works again . Keep the two commands in mind to check the webserver status and logs if there is any issue with the web interface.
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. Keep the two commands in mind to check the webserver status and logs if there is any issue with the web interface.