Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware
The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software.
Documentation & User Guides
This repo is the source for the official Pi-hole documentation.
How to contribute
To add a new link on the navigation panel you need to edit the mkdocs.yml file in the root of the repo. There is a guide for building the navbar on the mkdocs wiki
To add a new document or guide.
- Navigate to the directory where it will be hosted.
E.g. guides are in
docs/guides - Create the file using a URL friendly filename.
E.g.
docs/guides/url-friendly.md - Edit your document using Markdown, there are loads of resources available for the correct syntax.
Testing your changes
When working on this repo, it is advised that you review your changes locally before committing them. The mkdocs serve command can be used to live preview your changes (as you type) on your local machine.
Please make sure you fork the repo and change the clone URL in the example below for your fork:
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Linux Mint / Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.10 / 20.04 LTS:
- Preparations (only required once):
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/docs cd docs sudo apt install python3-pip pip3 install -r requirements.txt- Running the docs server:
mkdocs serve --dev-addr 0.0.0.0:8000 -
Fedora Linux instructions (tested on Fedora Linux 28):
- Preparations (only required once):
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/docs cd docs pip install --user -r requirements.txt- Running the docs server:
mkdocs serve --dev-addr 0.0.0.0:8000 -
Docker instructions:
- One-shot run:
docker run -v `pwd`:/opt/app/ -w /opt/app/ -p 8000:8000 -it nikolaik/python-nodejs:python3.7-nodejs16 \ sh -c "pip install --user -r requirements.txt && \ /root/.local/bin/mkdocs build && \ npm ci && \ npm test && \ /root/.local/bin/mkdocs serve --dev-addr 0.0.0.0:8000"
After these commands, the current branch is accessible through your favorite browser at http://localhost:8000
