I cannot figure out what is wrong with my admin interface

[William_Buckner]

Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you!

Expected Behaviour:

I expect lighttpd and dnsmasq should be able to start, and i should be able to access the admin interface with myip/admin or pi.hole/admin

Actual Behaviour:

lighttpd will not start, dnsmasq will not start, I have tried reinstalling, and repairing and nothing i can find will work

Debug Token:

p56v6l27le

[jfb]

Dnsmasq does not run with Pi-Hole V4. The code is embedded in pihole-FTL, which runs in place of the dnsmasq process.
Pi-Hole debug log will show dnsmasq as either failed or inactive.

This thread may be related to your lighttpd problem:

Problem accessing admin page

Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you! Expected Behaviour: Problem accessing the admin page. Actual Behaviour: Can't get to the admin page, dnsmasq and lighttpd failed. Whenever I try to access it with http://pi.hole/admin or with the IP address, I get: "This site can’t be reached" refused to connect. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED Debug Token: 65a2ipjijb

[William_Buckner]

Thank you for the quick response. I have tried what is listed in that answer you linked but I seem to have a different problem.

Here is my output for lighttpd status

lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-11-12 23:59:29 EST; 1min 42s ago
Process: 5502 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=255)
Process: 5493 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 5502 (code=exited, status=255)
Nov 12 23:59:29 pi.hole systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 12 23:59:29 pi.hole systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Nov 12 23:59:29 pi.hole systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 12 23:59:29 pi.hole systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 12 23:59:29 pi.hole systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 12 23:59:29 pi.hole systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.

Here is what is currently listening

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1036/sshd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:4711          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2927/pihole-FTL
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2927/pihole-FTL
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      1036/sshd
tcp6       0      0 :::53                   :::*                    LISTEN      2927/pihole-FTL
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53              0.0.0.0:*                           2927/pihole-FTL
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*                           1289/dhcpcd
udp6       0      0 :::53                   :::*                                2927/pihole-FTL

from what I have gathered error 255 is related to port 5s not being open but pihole-ftl is using it

[Mcat12]

Check the output of journalctl -u lighttpd