13-Mar-2019, 12:57 PM
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
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