Hi evereyone,
After doing some upgrades my Pi-hole Admin Page was not reachable anymore,
while blocking still worked.
1. Problem
The lighttpd service was not running because of the missing folder /var/log/lighttpd.
So lighttpd crashes when trying to access /var/log/lighttpd/error.log and access.log.
Reinstalling Pi-hole and lighttpd didnt solve the problem.
So I first created the folder myself:
sudo mkdir /var/log/lighttpd
sudo chown -R www-data: www-data /var/log/lighttpd
Then I reinstalled Pi-hole and lighttpd, now lighttpd was running.
Unfortunatly now I ran into 403 - Forbidden when accessing the admin page.
2. Problem
In lighttpd the fastcgi module has to be activated to work with php.
All mentioned solutions for this from the Pi-hole board didn't work for me.
After hours of trying and searching I found this workaround:
a) Uninstall Pi-hole and lighttpd (maybe not neccessary)
sudo pihole uninstall
sudo apt remove lighttpd
b) Install latest php, dnsmasq and Pi-hole (lighttpd will be installed automatically)
sudo apt install dnsmasq
sudo apt install php7.2
sudo apt install php7.2-cgi
sudo curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash (same method as in armbian-config i think)
c) Edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Adding fastcgi to server.modules:
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_fastcgi",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_auth",
"mod_expire",
"mod_compress",
"mod_redirect",
"mod_setenv",
"mod_rewrite"
)
And putting this at the end of the file:
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => ((
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
"socket" => "/tmp/php.sock"
)))
And voila - after reboot the Pi-hole admin-page was accessible again.
Hope this can help if someone is running in the same problem.
Greetz
Alex
Edit:
On the PiHole Board was mentioned, that there are conflicts with PiHole and dnsmasq.
So i suggest not to install it / uninstall it.
My System
Orange-Pi +2e
Armbian Bionic 5.85
Server running Pi-hole, OPI-Monitor, SMB, FTPS
