Pihole Admin interface not displaying properly

[NickScali]

Good afternoon all,

Went to go check the admin interface on my pihole and this is what it displays, it used to work perfectly, I'm not sure why its randomly started doing this.

I also updated PiHole to see if it would fix it, but it still displays this:

Anyone have any tips on how to fix this? Pihole still actually works, just the admin interface doesn't for some reason.

I'm runing PiHole on an RPi4B and on DietPi as my distro

Thanks

[jfb]

Please follow our help template. In particular, we need a debug token.

[NickScali]

This is what pihole status returns

[✓] FTL is listening on port 53
[✓] UDP (IPv4)
[✓] TCP (IPv4)
[✓] UDP (IPv6)
[✓] TCP (IPv6)

[✓] Pi-hole blocking is enabled

This is the Token it gave:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/0gxpv3PC/

I think it showed an issue up with apache at the start of the pihole -d command but it seems for some reason it hasn't saved what it reported in the log file?

EDIT: Says Apache is using port 80

Also throws up this

[Bucking_Horn]

You are running Apache as a webserver, in additon to (or instead of) Pi-hole's lighttpd:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Ports in use
[✗] tcp:0.0.0.0:80 is in use by apache2 (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)

You have to resolve that conflict, either by disabling Apache, or by moving Apache or lighttpd to a different port (edit: e.g. via /etc/lighttpd/external.conf).

Furthermore, your router is not distributing Pi-hole as DNS server, nor its own IP, but rather Cloudflare's:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Discovering active DHCP servers (takes 10 seconds)
   Scanning all your interfaces for DHCP servers
   
   * Received 396 bytes from eth0:192.168.0.1
     Offered IP address: 192.168.0.39
     DHCP options:
      Message type: DHCPOFFER (2)
      router: 192.168.0.1
      dns-server: 1.1.1.1
      dns-server: 1.0.0.1
         --- end of options ---

DHCP clients will by-pass Pi-hole, using one of those public DNS servers instead.
Pi-hole has to be the sole DNS server for your clients.

Also, the large count of YouTube domains (some 16,000) on your personal blacklist would suggest you are using a third-party script in an attempt to block some of YT's advertising.

Such a third-party script may also affect Pi-hole's operation, maybe also its webserver if it would include changes to Pi-hole's UI as well.

In general, trying to block unwanted ads that are delivered via the same domain as content using a scheme of ever-shifting domain names, may prove somewhat futile and counter-effective via a DNS filter like Pi-hole, since may not block all ads, and you may also block wanted content delivered via that same domain.

[NickScali]

Good afternoon,

Thanks for your prompt and detailed response,

I was in the process of setting up my RPi4B as also doing my own cloud storage which wanted Apache I believe, if I move lighttpd to another port, will that effect anything in regards to Pihole operation?

I have my router set up using Cloudfare DNS servers, but the clients on the network set up with static IP addresses but using Pihole as their DNS.

Is there a recommended blacklist that we use here? I just grabbed one on the internet.

EDIT: Moved lighttpd to port 8080 now the web interface is working correctly.