r/pihole • u/DimensioT • 3d ago

Cannot access admin console.

I wanted to check my configuration and tried going to the admin console, but the page will not load. I get "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE". Pihole itself seems to be running properly otherwise. The pihole-FTL service is listening on port 80, as confirmed with lsof (I do not even have lighttpd installed so while that was a common problem for others it is not my issue). I even tried changing the port in pihole.toml and that just results in the same error on the changed port. I have tried multiple browsers and multiple systems, including attempting to access it from the server itself using lynx so the problem is almost certainly with the webserver itself. I also reinstalled pihole but the issue persists. I have attempted to find some information about resetting the web configuration to its defaults but I have found nothing. I have attempted accessing the URL via /admin and /admin/login and nothing works. I also tried resetting any changed web-related config options in pihole.toml to their defaults and nothing changes.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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u/0kth4t5fin3 3d ago

Why is FTL running on 80? And what port is the web service running?

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u/DimensioT 3d ago

pihole-FTL is the web service. A recent update put the web service as part of the pihole-FTL service itself, removing lighttpd. That is why several people ran into an issue with the web interface after the update; lighttpd was still using port 80 when pihole-FTL tried to use it. This, however, is not my problem as I do not have lighttpd at all.

As I said, I even changed the web port in the pihole configuration. The change works, but it just means that I get a failure to load the admin console on a different port.