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Does Pihole use Lighttpd?
That’s because Pi Hole installs and configures a web server (Lighttpd) for itself using port 80.
Does Pihole use nginx?
Unless you have changed it, the default Nginx user is www-data and the user and group for the Pi-Hole install is pihole:pihole . As such, make changes through the admin interface, we need to add the www-data user into the pihole group.
What server does Pihole use?
Pi-hole or Pihole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network.
What is needed for Pi-hole?
To deploy Pi-hole on your home network, make sure you have all of the following: A Raspberry Pi with at least 512MB of RAM (all Raspberry Pi versions satisfy this requirement) and Raspbian installed. An SD-card with at least 2GB of free space. Internet connection on your Raspberry Pi.
Why does Lighttpd fail when pihole starts?
Sign in to your account lighttpd fails when pihole starts. I ran service lighttpd status to check this. Trying to load the lighttpd daemon manually with sudo service lighttpd start and then checking the status produces the same output. Pihole itself seems to be working.
Is it possible to uninstall lighttpd on Pi-hole?
Only downside is, that if you upgrade pi-hole using the update script, it will automatically install lighttpd. to uninstall lighttpd. Is it possible to post your steps into setting the admin dashboard on Apache?
Can You migrate Pi-hole from Lighttpd to Apache?
So the smallest change (I think) is to move PH from lighttpd to apache, rather than move all the services to lighttpd, etc. I am running the apache webserver instead of lighttpd on the pi3 with xbian installed. So yes it is possible to migrate using another webserver. I did not encounter problems with the functionality of the pi-hole gui.
Where does Pi hole go in Apache server?
Apache uses /var/www/html as default location for your webpages. Since pi-hole gets installed in the same directory (in sub-directory pihole), there is nothing extra to be done to use the apache server except from starting it: sudo service apache2 starrt.