PiHole on FreeBSD

gt2416 · July 9, 2021, 1:15pm

Hi,
FreeBSD isn't officially supported by pi-hole. This is a shame as its known to be a excellent OS for networking. I want to install pi-hole in a jail on TrueNAS 12, however I can't find any information about manually installing it on the docs.
Apart from setting up a webserver and sql or sqlite server, what php modules are needed for this to run ?
I sure with a LAMP stack and some config files pi-hole can work on FreeBSD, I don't see anything obvious that prevents it from working.
Could someone point me in the right direction to help get this setup ?
I will post a guide on how to do this if successful.
I cam across this Install on "non-supported" distro? - #8 by malbeth
however the links he posted to the install steps are no longer working
Thanks

jfb · July 9, 2021, 1:27pm

There is an open feature request with some related discussion.

gt2416 · July 9, 2021, 1:28pm

Thanks, ill post there.
Edit: Seems like its closed ? Not able to post anything there.

malbeth · July 9, 2021, 1:35pm

I just tested them and the attachments (txt files) & links are working fine...

yubiuser · July 9, 2021, 1:35pm

Likely due to you being new to the forum. Hang out a bit and read some topics and you will be able to post there.

github.com

pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/4736e03108763cc2d5659f48d8a1e8a64d9b2608/automated install/basic-install.sh#L363


      
          else
              printf "  %b Aborting installation: No SQLite PHP module was found in APT repository.\\n" "${CROSS}"
              exit 1
          fi
          # Packages required to run this install script (stored as an array)
          INSTALLER_DEPS=(dhcpcd5 git "${iproute_pkg}" whiptail dnsutils)
          # Packages required to run Pi-hole (stored as an array)
          PIHOLE_DEPS=(cron curl iputils-ping lsof netcat psmisc sudo unzip wget idn2 sqlite3 libcap2-bin dns-root-data libcap2)
          # Packages required for the Web admin interface (stored as an array)
          # It's useful to separate this from Pi-hole, since the two repos are also setup separately
          PIHOLE_WEB_DEPS=(lighttpd "${phpVer}-common" "${phpVer}-cgi" "${phpVer}-${phpSqlite}" "${phpVer}-xml" "${phpVer}-json" "${phpVer}-intl")
          # The Web server user,
          LIGHTTPD_USER="www-data"
          # group,
          LIGHTTPD_GROUP="www-data"
          # and config file
          LIGHTTPD_CFG="lighttpd.conf.debian"
          
          # This function waits for dpkg to unlock, which signals that the previous apt-get command has finished.
          test_dpkg_lock() {
              i=0

gt2416 · July 9, 2021, 1:38pm

Thanks, tried again and it worked after showing a empty response error

gt2416 · July 9, 2021, 2:36pm

Used @freqlabs github to build pi-ftl, it starts and listens on port 4117 and 53. Setup a caddy webserver to serve pi-admin files and copied pihoole to my bin directory.
I get a webpage with some errors about not being to open /proc/cpuinfo (which is fine) but it reports FTL service as not running. Does it check if the FTL file is in some path or just listening on port 4117 ? Maybe I missed some config file. Otherwise the web interface is working.

gt2416 · July 9, 2021, 2:43pm

Progress ?? Oh and a divide by zero error, but that never hurt anyone right

system · July 30, 2021, 2:43pm

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