Pi-hole: Pi-hole web interface not updating stats

Created on 15 Dec 2015 · 6Comments · Source: pi-hole/pi-hole

I performed a fresh install of Raspbian (Jessie).
Installed pi-hole, curl -L install.pi-hole.net | bash
configured static IP and rebooted.
Then configured DNS in my router.
I have verified that ads are being blocked. However when I view the Pi-hole Admin Console web interface, it is not updating any statistics other than the total number of Domains being blocked.
I noticed I am running Pi-hole Version 2.1.
Not sure if this is a bug or not. I have done this exact process on 2 separate Raspberry pi units and have the same results.

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agietl

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This is usually because of the permissions. The installer usually takes care of this, unless we missed something with all the recent changes. Run these commands and try it again:

sudo touch /var/log/pihole.log
sudo chmod 644 /var/log/pihole.log
sudo chown dnsmasq:root /var/log/pihole.log

jacobsalmela on 15 Dec 2015

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This is usually because of the permissions. The installer usually takes care of this, unless we missed something with all the recent changes. Run these commands and try it again:

sudo touch /var/log/pihole.log
sudo chmod 644 /var/log/pihole.log
sudo chown dnsmasq:root /var/log/pihole.log

jacobsalmela on 15 Dec 2015

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I just did a fresh install of Raspbian Jessie-Lite and then ran
curl -L install.pi-hole.net | bash and installed with a static IP address. Running a tail -f /var/log/pihole.log does show activity, however a visit to http://192.168.1.165/admin does show all 0's for blocking stats.

I haven't had a chance to look at the web code so I'm not sure where the bug might be yet, but I'll try to take a look and see... There are a suprpising number of ad-sites that are serving via IPv6 now though, so some ads do get through. (That's another discussion thread though, lol...)

dschaper on 16 Dec 2015

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I ran those commands and wanted to confirm that fixed the problem!

agietl on 16 Dec 2015

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Okay, here's the default permissions for the log file:
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 1085628 Dec 16 04:50 /var/log/pihole.log
Looks like we need to update the install to chmod that file. I think I took that out because dnsmasq auto-creates the file, but the permissions will need to be more open for the pihole user to function.

dschaper on 16 Dec 2015

chown www-data:www-data /var/log/pihole.log worked for me