New user - Text only admin console & no data

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Hi everyone, I successfully installed Debian 9 (250 MB CD version from Debian) on an old laptop and then successfully installed Pi-Hole which works great (Forbes.com without a nag screen!).

However, my admin console on the laptop or on my desktop client doesn't have an graphics or data- it looks like this in Internet Explorer on the Windows PC and looks like that in Firefox on the Debian laptop:

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On my android note 3 or other browsers on the pc it is straight up html code:

<?php /* * Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements * (c) 2017 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net) * Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware. * * This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL. * Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license. */ $indexpage = true; require "scripts/pi-hole/php/header.php"; ?>

Total queries (- clients)

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Queries Blocked

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I suspect a permissions issue someplace but I don't have a clue where to start.

Thanks!

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At first glance, it appears that you don't have php installed (or the wrong version). Please post the output of

php --version

and

apt-cache show php
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Thanks! Here's the result(s):

root@Debian-PiHole:/var# php --version
PHP 7.0.19-1 (cli) (built: May 11 2017 14:04:47) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.19-1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies
root@Debian-PiHole:/var# apt-cache show php
Package: php
Source: php-defaults (49)
Version: 1:7.0+49
Installed-Size: 12
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
Architecture: all
Depends: php7.0
Description-en: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used
open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited
for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
PHP version (currently 7.0).
Description-md5: b955c03ceec2872c327e77278c943d6a
Section: php
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/php-defaults/php_7.0+49_all.deb
Size: 5016
MD5sum: 439628dab891fa1773fbe5c16ae7cc2d
SHA256: 464539f8a85ed3cb2fb3ac93cfe7755623a4bdf72f91d9c2a1d4ff16cb134a58

root@Debian-PiHole:/var#

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Make a debug token: pihole -d

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Done! Thank you- the token:
Your debug token is: sox9rxvu3g

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Apache has taken over port 80. Disable/uninstall it or move it to another port so lighttpd can use port 80.

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Moved Apache to port 8080 and restarted Apache. Browsed to :8080/admin/ and the display still appears as text only, no graphics and no data.

Reran the pihole -d debugger, token is 3lnv84bwf9

Debugger confirms that Apache is now on port 8080, but lighttpd daemon is still failed. Wish I knew more "under the hood".

Thanks!

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What is the output of sudo service lighttpd status

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Why did you try to access the dashboard through the port that is associated with Apache?

Maybe try also a simple

sudo service lighttpd restart
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Smacks forehead! The restart worked. The status query showed it not working so I then issued the restart and that returned:

root@Debian-PiHole:/home/rhsmith# service lighttpd status
● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-01-06 13:28:23 CST; 10s ago
Process: 30932 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 30942 (lighttpd)
Tasks: 6 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/lighttpd.service
├─30942 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
├─30952 /usr/bin/php-cgi
├─30953 /usr/bin/php-cgi
├─30954 /usr/bin/php-cgi
├─30955 /usr/bin/php-cgi
└─30956 /usr/bin/php-cgi

Jan 06 13:28:23 Debian-PiHole systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Jan 06 13:28:23 Debian-PiHole systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.

And access on port 80 shows an active dashboard with a lot of data.

Thank you!

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