Lighttpd running but admin site is still 403

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Expected Behaviour:

After a fresh install on stretch, the pi.hole/admin website should work.

Actual Behaviour:

A 403 error is occuring. A few hours of debugging lead me to troubleshoot lighttpd and dnsmasq.

lighttpd seems to be missing modules that other users say have fixed their issue such as fastcgi and fastcgi-php.

dnsmasq doesn't seem to be installed in the first place.

Here is my debug token:

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/uj3xn11pey

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dnsmasq is embedded in pihole-FTL and does not run as a separate process (since V4.0 of Pi-Hole).

What are the outputs of these commands from the Pi terminal?

sudo netstat -nltup | grep 'Proto\|:53 \|:67 \|:80 \|:471'

sudo systemctl status --full --no-pager lighttpd

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo netstat -nltup | grep 'Proto\|:53 \|:67 \|:80 \|:471'
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      463/lighttpd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      650/pihole-FTL
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:4711          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      650/pihole-FTL
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      463/lighttpd
tcp6       0      0 :::53                   :::*                    LISTEN      650/pihole-FTL
tcp6       0      0 ::1:4711                :::*                    LISTEN      650/pihole-FTL
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53              0.0.0.0:*                           650/pihole-FTL
udp6       0      0 :::53                   :::*                                650/pihole-FTL

All the local addresses showing up as 0's don't look good but currently the DNS is active and blocking ads

also

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status --full --no-pager lighttpd
● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2019-07-01 04:19:57 BST; 2min 17s ago
  Process: 426 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 463 (lighttpd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/lighttpd.service
           └─463 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Jul 01 04:19:55 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Jul 01 04:19:57 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.

I'm sorry if this turns into a simple mistake gone wrong, I'm somewhat new to linux systems.

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These are fine. Your debug log shows no problem with Pi-Hole other than lighttpd.

I think your problem may be the lack of php-cgi. Where did you get the distribution of Stretch you are using and is it the Lite or Desktop version?

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I am currently using the lite version, I downloaded it directly from Index of /raspbian/images

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

The 2019-04-08 release to put a date to it

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It was the strangest thing but I figured out eventually that I could still finally access the php file on it's own if I manually typed in http://pi.hole/admin/index.php

After doing many work arounds to no avail and leaving many files laying around, I did a fresh image of stretch and installed pihole with no issues. The domain even worked this time without having to add index.php, go figure.

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