Open Trunkzeh opened 3 years ago
Many thanks for your report.
Indeed we expect the web UI to be installed, and I guess >99% if users do it anyway. But I agree it would be great to allow a lightweight install without web UI.
It's a larger task since it requires a different way of how dependencies are resolved. Currently the webserver and PHP are installed before the Pi-hole installer is called. When switching it, we need to test if the Pi-hole installed runs through successfully when installing the web interface without having a webserver installed already (and skipping the included Lighttpd install).
You are right - normally i would install the webgui; however im trying to run as lightweight as possible on the rpi zero as its not exactly fast; the zero acts as my backup dns instance incase the rpi4 goes down for whatever reason; that naturally has pihole webgui. I'm going to re-image the zero again and then install via the default pihole install script (rather than dietpi) and feedback :)
Jep, I see the use cases.
re-image the zero again and then install via the default pihole install script
No need to re-image. pihole -r
> Reconfigure
and uninstalling webserver + PHP via dietpi-software
would do it as well 😉.
I thought of doing that; however the webserver package(s) dont show up on the uninstall menu of dietpi-software in the above scenario. I'm not sure because the script hasnt registered the installation when it was initially running the original pihole job if that makes sense? Only having a logical guess.. I havent the faintest clue on the mechanics of dietpi's optimized software scripts.
Edit - I should note; they DO when attempting to uninstall on a successful pihole install; i've confirmed this previously on my rpi4. But not on the pizero which has had the pihole job fail due to the above webserver issue.
Ah yes that makes sense when the install didn't went through. We need add a pending state for installs which allow another install as well as an uninstall 💡.
Personally; this ticket can be closed. I was able to install pihole via the developer's standard installation procedure (their install script) and have it operate without a webgui with no extra steps. 99% of everybody installing pihole would utilize a webgui and dietpi works out of the box :-)
TLDR; pihole works great on dietpi. If you want to run it without a webgui; install using the official pihole installation script rather than from dietpi-software.
Let me keep it open, as I find it reasonable to allow an install without web UI via dietpi-software as well.
Any update on this? I just try to install pi-hole thru dietpi-software, and it force me to pre-install a web server and PHP. Of course the pi-hole install script still allow to skip web interface, so I have to uninstall the web server and PHP manually.
currently there is no plan to offer such an install option without web interface.
I don't think there is a need to support that use-case. Just show the user that: dietpi-software doesn't support no web interface install, and if the user want that then please use the install script directly from pi-hole. Something to inform user would be nice.
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7b1d1bf6-6730-423f-9ae8-951befe289f0
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[FAILED] DietPi-Software | cd /var/www/html/admin
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Looks like the script is looking for the webgui html files in /var/www/html/admin which naturally are not there as pihole has installed without a webgui.