Hi all,

Just stumbled onto Snakeoil (LOVE the distro name) while looking for media server alternatives and am playing with this now. Although my primary purpose is LMS/Squeezebox my needs are also a little more broad.

I would like to install Plex media server - there are loads of how-to's out there but there appears to be a conflict with the GUI's based on testing with pi-hole (DNS ad blocker). Pihole gives you the option of either installing a web server or using the existing one and both options messed things up but luckily pihole is OK without the GUI so not a deal breaker.. However I found the following after testing.

1. Installed GUI to use existing web server.
http://snakeoil - gives the admin snakeoil console. OK
http://snakeoil/admin - should give the admin to pi-hole but redirects to the snakeoil admin page.

2. I then configured pihole to add web server to run on port 88 
http://snakeoil - gives the admin snakeoil console but missing data - error saying that REST API timed out.
http://snakeoil:88/admin - again redirected to snakeoil admin page

But to confuse things, http://snakeoil:9000 successfully brings up LMS. But I am guessing that LMS GUI does not use REST...

My linux skills are limited (& dangerous!) but am a little unclear how all this works together... is it because both snakeoil and pihole use REST on the same port ?? I guessed that changing the web listening port would also change the REST port but maybe not.
How would I approach installing Plex ? would it also conflict with the snakeoil console ? 
Where are the REST configs stored ??


Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

cheers

[agent_kith]

The web server will re-direct all 404s back to the webpage. I'm guessing the pi-hole admin path don't physically exist in /var/www/

As for :88 re-directing back to port 80. There's possibly a pi-hole configuration where you specify the base URL, that needs to point to the new port.

Have a look at /etc/lighttpd and look at the web server configuration files, and also have a look at the pi-hole configuration files, adjust them to do whatever you want.

The web server will re-direct all 404s back to the webpage. I'm guessing the pi-hole admin path don't physically exist in /var/www/

As for :88 re-directing back to port 80. There's possibly a pi-hole configuration where you specify the base URL, that needs to point to the new port.

Have a look at /etc/lighttpd and look at the web server configuration files, and also have a look at the pi-hole configuration files, adjust them to do whatever you want.

Thanks -I will look more closely into that tomorrow. As I said it is not a deal breaker..

Any thoughts on installing Plex ?

[agent_kith]

Thanks -I will look more closely into that tomorrow. As I said it is not a deal breaker..

Any thoughts on installing Plex ? 

Plex should work, havn't tried it in a while though.. Snakeoil OS is basically a variant of Ubuntu (Debian). And you have root access to the OS, you can basically do everything you want.

Thanks -I will look more closely into that tomorrow. As I said it is not a deal breaker..

Any thoughts on installing Plex ? 

Plex should work, havn't tried it in a while though.. Snakeoil OS is basically a variant of Ubuntu (Debian). And you have root access to the OS, you can basically do everything you want. 

As an update (& in case it helps someone else), plex worked right away following the process at https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-...untu-1604/

Pihole. I started off with a new install and it again failed to load the GUI (everything else was ok). Put it aside and I eventually noticed that the install path went into ~/html/admin instead of ~/admin. The GUI worked if I went the full path with with index.php. Moved the directories up a level and I can live with that..
Certain that I tried this earlier but....

Thanks for the comments to help.