# Pi-hole no web interface access and lighttpd.service failed to start

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 4, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225 "2018-11-04T13:03:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/1 "2018-11-04T13:03:38Z")

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

Hi, thanks for being part of this great project. I would need help as my friend google can not help me anymore

## Expected Behaviour:

Access to web interface

## Actual Behaviour:

after a power outage the web interface is not accessible anymore. lighttpd refuses to start, blocking and dns over http works

## Debug Token:

k999znraw2

what I did:

1. pihole -r didn't help
2. 

```auto
~$ systemctl status lighttpd.service
● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-11-04 19:44:12 WIB; 18min ago
  Process: 4158 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=255)
  Process: 4148 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 4158 (code=exited, status=255)

Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 04 19:44:12 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

```

thanks in advance cheers

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**Author:** ![RamSet](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/ramset/32/3497_2.png) [@RamSet](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/RamSet)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/4 "2018-11-04T14:57:33Z")

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Can you paste the contents of `/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf` ?

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/8 "2018-11-04T15:34:56Z")

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@RamSet , thanks for helping

```
server.modules = (
        "mod_access",
        "mod_accesslog",
        "mod_auth",
        "mod_expire",
        "mod_compress",
        "mod_redirect",
        "mod_setenv",
        "mod_rewrite"
)
server.document-root = "/var/www/html"
server.error-handler-404 = "pihole/index.php"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port = 80
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
accesslog.format = "%{%s}t|%V|%r|%s|%b"

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" )

# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"

# Prevent Lighttpd from enabling Let's Encrypt SSL for every blocked domain
#include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
include_shell "find /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled -name '*.conf' -a ! -name 'letsencrypt.conf' -printf 'include \"%p\"\n' 2>/dev/null"

# If the URL starts with /admin, it is the Web interface
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/admin/" {
    # Create a response header for debugging using curl -I
    setenv.add-response-header = (
        "X-Pi-hole" => "The Pi-hole Web interface is working!",
        "X-Frame-Options" => "DENY"
    )

    $HTTP["url"] =~ ".ttf$" {
        # Allow Block Page access to local fonts
        setenv.add-response-header = ( "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => "*" )
    }
}

# Block . files from being served, such as .git, .github, .gitignore
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/admin/\.(.*)" {
     url.access-deny = ("")

```

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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/9 "2018-11-05T15:52:30Z")

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What is the output of this command?

```auto
journalctl -u lighttpd

```

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/10 "2018-11-05T15:55:25Z")

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```
orangepione@orangepizero:~$ journalctl -u lighttpd
-- Logs begin at Mon 2018-11-05 13:17:01 WIB, end at Mon 2018-11-05 22:54:05 WIB
Nov 05 13:17:13 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero lighttpd[957]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) ope
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, 
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed s
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'e
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero lighttpd[984]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) ope
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, 
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed s
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'e
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero lighttpd[1016]: 2018-11-05 13:17:15: (log.c.171) op
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, 
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed s
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'e
lines 1-23...skipping...

```

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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/11 "2018-11-05T15:57:00Z")

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The output is cut off, try `journalctl -u lighttpd -l`

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/12 "2018-11-05T15:59:03Z")

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```
orangepione@orangepizero:~$ journalctl -u lighttpd -l
-- Logs begin at Mon 2018-11-05 13:17:01 WIB, end at Mon 2018-11-05 22:55:01 WIB. --
Nov 05 13:17:13 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero lighttpd[957]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero lighttpd[984]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero lighttpd[1016]: 2018-11-05 13:17:15: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero lighttpd[1037]: 2018-11-05 13:17:16: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero lighttpd[1058]: 2018-11-05 13:17:16: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

```

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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/13 "2018-11-05T16:00:04Z")

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> [@dieterg](#):
>
> Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero lighttpd[957]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) opening errorlog ‘/var/log/lighttpd/error.log’ failed: Permission denied

Check the permissions on this file

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/14 "2018-11-05T16:02:43Z")

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Nov 4 06:25 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log

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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/15 "2018-11-05T16:03:50Z")

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Run `sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/log/lighttpd/error.log`

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/16 "2018-11-05T16:05:14Z")

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orangepione@orangepizero:~$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/log/lighttpd/error.log  
orangepione@orangepizero:~$ sudo ls -l /var/log/lighttpd/error.log  
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 122 Nov 4 06:25 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log

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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/17 "2018-11-05T16:05:43Z")

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Does restarting lighttpd work now?

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/18 "2018-11-05T16:08:46Z")

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orangepione@orangepizero:~$ sudo service lighthttpd restart  
Failed to restart lighthttpd.service: Unit lighthttpd.service not found.

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/19 "2018-11-05T16:46:17Z")

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the log file is may strange  
sudo nano /var/log/lighttpd/error.log  
2018-11-02 13:17:11: (log.c.217) server started  
2018-11-04 06:25:04: (server.c.1534) logfiles cycled UID = 0 PID = 1772

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/20 "2018-11-05T16:56:55Z")

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`sudo service lighttpd restart`

Be very careful on spelling, it counts with computers.

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/21 "2018-11-05T17:02:01Z")

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Thanks Dan  
orangepione@orangepizero:~$ sudo service lighttpd restart  
no output and

```
$ sudo systemctl status lighttpd.service
● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-11-06 00:03:38 WIB; 14s ago
  Process: 4833 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=255)
  Process: 4823 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 4833 (code=exited, status=255)

Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 06 00:03:38 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

```

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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/22 "2018-11-05T17:04:44Z")

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Check `journalctl -u lighttpd -l` again

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/23 "2018-11-05T17:05:36Z")

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-- Logs begin at Mon 2018-11-05 13:17:01 WIB, end at Tue 2018-11-06 00:05:01 WIB. --  
Nov 05 13:17:13 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero lighttpd[957]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...  
Nov 05 13:17:14 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero lighttpd[984]: 2018-11-05 13:17:14: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero lighttpd[1016]: 2018-11-05 13:17:15: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:15 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero lighttpd[1037]: 2018-11-05 13:17:16: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...  
Nov 05 13:17:16 orangepizero systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.  
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero lighttpd[1058]: 2018-11-05 13:17:16: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied  
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a  
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.  
Nov 05 13:17:17 orangepizero systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
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**Author:** ![Mcat12](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/mcat12/32/20_2.png) [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/24 "2018-11-05T17:08:07Z")

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Nothing new has been written to the log. Check the permissions on the error file again, and its contents.

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**Author:** ![dieterg](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dieterg/32/5495_2.png) [@dieterg](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/dieterg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-no-web-interface-access-and-lighttpd-service-failed-to-start/14225/25 "2018-11-05T17:10:04Z")

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orangepione@orangepizero:~$ sudo ls -l /var/log/lighttpd/error.log  
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 122 Nov 4 06:25 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log

sudo nano /var/log/lighttpd/error.log  
2018-11-02 13:17:11: (log.c.217) server started  
2018-11-04 06:25:04: (server.c.1534) logfiles cycled UID = 0 PID = 1772

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