My Pi-hole server stopped blocking ads i noticed over the last week or so. I tried to update it to the latest version and it failed a few times before i tried to get it repaired and working. Well i got it to update but then the DNS service would just stop after starting it manually every time. I got frustrated and just downloaded a new DietPi image and reloaded the image onto the SD card and reinstalled Pi-hole and got it working (and set it up to a static IP) eventually. This was working as of last night when i did this. This morning my DNS isnt working and come to find out my RP was still set to DHCP and i could not get it to set to Static without DHCP still turning back on. I got set to Static IP finally and rebooted and now i cant reach the web interface but testing out various ad blocking sites, it still seems to be working and it is up to date as of this post. Right now i'm not going to mess with it anymore for fear of breaking it and losing my config again. I cant reach the admin page by IP or by name. Something else for me to try or am i doing something wrong?
Web interface should be working (it was as of last night)
Web interface is unreachable, but is still blocking ads as far as i can tell.
wvaktvepys
Mcat12
September 2, 2018, 4:40pm
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Lighttpd is not running. What is the output of sudo service lighttpd status -l
Also, your uBlockOrigin block lists are not compatible with Pi-hole.
● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Sep 02 17:59:54 DietPi systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result
What's output if you start lighttpd by hand ?
sudo /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
If it does start (by checking web GUI), press CTRL-C couple of times to exit.
deHakkelaar, this is the results. I've tried restarting it too but its always exit=0 code=255 cannot start service, etc.
root@DietPi:~# sudo /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
pi@noads:~ $ sudo stat /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 33/www-data)
Try:
sudo touch /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
sudo chmod 644 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
sudo service lighttpd restart
sudo service lighttpd status -l
EDIT: maybe first check if containing folder has got correct permissions (750) and ownership (www-data/www-data):
pi@noads:~ $ sudo stat /var/log/lighttpd
Access: (0750/drwxr-x---) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 33/www-data)
Says the file or folder does not exist.
root@DietPi:~# sudo /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Sep 04 00:37:11 DietPi systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed
Ok, create the folder first:
sudo mkdir /var/log/lighttpd
sudo chmod -R 644 /var/log/lighttpd
sudo chmod 750 /var/log/lighttpd
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/log/lighttpd
And restart:
sudo service lighttpd restart
sudo service lighttpd status -l
EDIT: sorry, I needed to alter again for correct permissions
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That seemed to have worked as i am able to log into the web interface now. Am i going to have to do this every reboot?
root@DietPi:~# sudo mkdir /var/log/lighttpd
Sep 04 00:53:18 DietPi systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
No.
Yea im not sure what happened. I'll follow up if anything else strange happens. Thank you very much.
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system
September 25, 2018, 12:04am
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