As already many members had this kind of issue, it appears also for me. I have read and tried already many times the proposed solutions, even reinstalled everything from scratch and still I cannot get it working.
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (arm64). (Was thinking to switch to Debian... perhaps better?)
I do not see where the problem might be. Can everybody take a look on it?
You're running nginx as webserver which is unsupported (only lighttpd is). Search the forum how to get it working with PI-hole
[80] is in use by nginx (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
[80] is in use by nginx (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
[80] is in use by nginx (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
[80] is in use by nginx (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: lighttpd version
[✗] lighttpd version could not be detected.
INSTALL_WEB_SERVER=false
Well, even lighttpd gave the same "FTL offline" issue thus the switch to nginx.
My impression was that the data cannot be fetched - however I gave the right permissions.
I removed nginx and switched back to lighttpd and having same problem.
Can you describe your problem in a bit more detail, please? Is the whole dashboard not working? Only a part? From your log, FTL is reported as not running, but in fact it looks like it is and was
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Ports in use
*:5023 telnetd (IPv6)
*:5080 httpd (IPv6)
*:22 sshd (IPv4)
*:22 sshd (IPv6)
[80] is in use by lighttpd
[80] is in use by lighttpd
[53] is in use by pihole-FTL
[53] is in use by pihole-FTL
[4711] is in use by pihole-FTL
[4711] is in use by pihole-FTL
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole processes
[✗] lighttpd daemon is
[✗] pihole-FTL daemon is
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] Imported 1691 queries from the long-term database
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Total DNS queries: 1691
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Cached DNS queries: 591
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Forwarded DNS queries: 913
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Blocked DNS queries: 182
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Unknown DNS queries: 0
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Unique domains: 397
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Unique clients: 6
[2021-07-16 22:42:39.641 29610M] -> Known forward destinations: 6
Sorry for my late reply, I have been on a short holiday in the meanwhile.
Exactly! The interesting part is that pihole runs in the background, however the Dashboard does not load. I could change and save settings, refresh Gravity, update lists, but the statistics/logs are not shown (loads for eternity). I had the impression it cannot fetch the data from the db. Also, the pihole page shows that FTL is offline.
Well, let me give you a short overview about the system as it is not a standard thing:
Hardware: Samsung Galaxy S10 rooted (with Magisk)
Software: Android 11
on top of Android is 'Linux Deploy by meefik' installed
with 'Linux Deploy' I have set up an Ubuntu Linux 20.04 (also tried with Debian)
So far as I know, Linux Deploy uses containers to deploy linux. What I could figure out so far, it is always deployed in a chroot environment and therefore some commands in the pihole installations are performed but "ignored requests".
I have set up an Ubuntu VM on my laptop and deployed pihole on it, worked like a charm on the first snap. I will further troubleshoot with the above configuration and try to get it running, will see...
This is a configuration way out of the usual supported devices/OS. I would be surprised if it is working without any issues instead of the other way round. I read some others tried to get Pi-hole running on Android, but I'm not sure if they have been successful. Use the search function.