Pi hole ® Network-wide Ad Blocking

In this tutorial, we will learn how to Block Ads in your home network-wide using Raspberry Pi hole single board

Start by installing the Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian)

It’s always good to do both update and upgrade right after you start afresh Raspberry Pi OS:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now you are ready for the major installation of this tutorial

Install Pi hole

In the terminal copy the below command to install Pi-hole® in one step:

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

follow the simple setup wizard to proceed with the installation:

once the installation is done there will be several ways to access the dashboard:

1. http://<IP_ADDPRESS_OF_YOUR_PI_HOLE>/admin/
2. http://pi.hole/admin/ (when using Pi-hole® as your DNS server)
3. http://pi.hole/ (when using Pi-hole as your DNS server)

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incase you need to change the port from default port 80, follow the below commands:

cd /etc/lighttpd
nano lighttpd.conf

####change port 80 to 81 and restart the service

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Dark Theme integration for the admin dashboard

you can change the theme of Pihole admin dashboard to dark theme by following the below commands. Therefore, it is up to you that which theme you want to use.

cd /var/www/html/
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lkd70/PiHole-Dark/master/install.sh

sudo chmod +x install.sh

sudo ./install.sh

####you need to accept it twice 😉

Y ↵

Y ↵

Internet Speed Test Mod:

You can add some extra function to the Pi hole admin dashboard for internet Speed Test. and you can configure it to run the test every 1, 2, 4, 6, or 12 hours

sudo apt install python-pip

sudo pip install speedtest-cli

sudo apt install sqlite3

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata 

###Select your timezone

php -v

sudo apt install php7.0-sqlite

###TEST

speedtest-cli -h

##Backup original admin folder

sudo su

cd /var/www/html

mv admin org_admin

git clone https://github.com/arevindh/AdminLTE admin

###Get latest webscripts file

cd /opt/pihole/

mv webpage.sh webpage.sh.org

wget https://github.com/arevindh/pi-hole/raw/master/advanced/Scripts/webpage.sh

###TEST

sudo pihole -a -sn

Sources

• Pi-hole official website is here

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