Pi-Hole web interface not working

JaredBusch

Sorry, yes, lighttpd is not running. states it is failing to parse the /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file around line 94. Except that, the file only has 93 lines and is default. I have never touched it. Any changes, of which I have none, would be in external.conf.

This morning I poked around and the other Fedora 28 setup I have has the same error.

[jbusch@pihole ~]$ sudo systemctl status lighttpd | cat
● lighttpd.service - Lightning Fast Webserver With Light System Requirements
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-08-28 08:36:36 CDT; 14min ago
  Process: 2372 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=255)
 Main PID: 2372 (code=exited, status=255)

Aug 28 08:36:36 pihole.jaredbusch.com systemd[1]: Started Lightning Fast Webserver With Light System Requirements.
Aug 28 08:36:36 pihole.jaredbusch.com lighttpd[2372]: 2018-08-28 08:36:36: (configfile.c.1451) pclose "cat external.conf 2>/dev/null"failed: Success
Aug 28 08:36:36 pihole.jaredbusch.com lighttpd[2372]: 2018-08-28 08:36:36: (configfile.c.1289) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 94 pos: 1 parser failed somehow near here: (EOL)
Aug 28 08:36:36 pihole.jaredbusch.com systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Aug 28 08:36:36 pihole.jaredbusch.com systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

The conf file looks like it was updated on on both systems, but not the orig.

[jbusch@pihole ~]$ ls -la /etc/lighttpd/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x.  4 root root  103 Aug 13 09:00 .
drwxr-xr-x. 89 root root 8192 Aug 27 20:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Aug 13 09:00 conf.d
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 3560 Aug 13 14:46 lighttpd.conf
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 3560 Aug  8 23:00 lighttpd.conf.orig
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 3319 Aug 12 23:07 modules.conf
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   29 Aug 13 09:00 vhosts.d

[jbusch@pihole ~]$ ls -la /etc/lighttpd/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x.  4 root root  103 Aug 13 09:00 .
drwxr-xr-x. 84 root root 8192 Aug 27 17:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Aug 13 09:00 conf.d
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 3560 Aug 11 15:40 lighttpd.conf
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 3560 Apr  3 15:18 lighttpd.conf.orig
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 3319 Aug 12 23:07 modules.conf
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   29 Aug 13 09:00 vhosts.d
[jbusch@pihole ~]$

JaredBusch

Replacing with the .orig did not help. same error.

DustinB3403

Does the original file have 94 lines?

JaredBusch

@dustinb3403 said in Pi-Hole web interface not working:

Does the original file have 94 lines?

They are identical. So I did not expect a different response.

JaredBusch

Looks like an issue is already opened.
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/2391

JaredBusch

The original file has not been touched in almost a year, so I do not think that the problem lies in the configuration file.
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commits/master/advanced/lighttpd.conf.fedora

More likely something else has changed with lighttpd

DustinB3403

@jaredbusch so you're saying don't update our systems.

Thanks for helping to find a bug.

JaredBusch

@dustinb3403 said in Pi-Hole web interface not working:

@jaredbusch so you're saying don't update our systems.

Thanks for helping to find a bug.

I updated to 4 on the 13th obviously. Dunno if that was it or a dnf update.

JaredBusch

Commented out the include to external.conf and it starts.

JaredBusch

On the other system I created a blank external.conf and it works now.

sudo touch /etc/lighttpd/external.conf

dbeato

@jaredbusch said in Pi-Hole web interface not working:

On the other system I created a blank external.conf and it works now.
sudo touch /etc/lighttpd/external.conf

Got it