How to: Host another website alongside the Pi-Hole admin interface on your Raspbian installation.
1.Create a new folder for your web server in the same folder, the files for the Pi-Hole interface are stored:
mkdir /var/www/html/myserver
It's usually /var/www/html/, but you can look it up in your lighttpd config (stored at /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) where it is referred to as server.document-root.
2.Set ownership to user www-data:
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/myserver
3.Enable virtual hosts:
sudo lighty-enable-mod simple-vhost
sudo service lighttpd force-reload
4.Configure your lighttpd server. Edit /etc/lighttpd/external.conf using this scheme:
$HTTP["host"] == "<DOMAIN>" {
<YOUR CONFIG>
}
Example
$HTTP["host"] == "my.server" {
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_auth",
"mod_expire",
"mod_compress",
"mod_redirect",
"mod_setenv",
"mod_rewrite"
)
server.document-root = "/var/www/html/myserver/"
server.error-handler-404 = "index.php"
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port = 80
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc", ".md", ".yml", ".ini" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )
mimetype.assign = ( ".png" => "image/png",
".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
".html" => "text/html",
".css" => "text/css; charset=utf-8",
".js" => "application/javascript",
".json" => "application/json",
".txt" => "text/plain",
".svg" => "image/svg+xml" )
}
5.Check the syntax of your config:
lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/external.conf
It should return "Syntax OK".
6.Restart lighttpd:
sudo systemctl restart lighttpd
7.Add the domain to your PiHole:
Pi-Hole 5+:
Add the domain using the Local DNS Records section in the web interface.
Older Versions:
Edit "local.list" and add an entry following this scheme:
<Pi-Hole IP> <Domain>