Arch Linux ARM Install Pi-Hole On A Raspberry Pi

Note

Pi-Hole is not officially supported on the Arch Linux operating system.

Prerequisites¶

Installed and configured Arch Linux Arm operating system.
Set a static IP address via DHCP or statically on the device.
Installed Arch Linux Install Aur Helper.

Note

Required to install package "pi-hole-server".

Environment¶

Tested on to a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
Using Nginx to server Pi-Hole's web interface.
Using pi-hole-server package for local area network (LAN).

Install Pi-Hole¶

Install required packages.
```
# pikaur -Syu pi-hole-server nginx-mainline php-fpm php-sqlite inetutils
```
Info

Pi-Hole Chronometer (pihole -c) utilizes the command "hostname" and therefore the package "inetutils" is required.
Set Pi-Hole web interface administrator password.
```
# pihole -a -p <password>
```

Enable PHP required extensions.

# nano /etc/php/php.ini

extension=curl
extension=pdo_sqlite
extension=sockets
extension=sqlite3

Create Nginx directory for site config.
```
# mkdir /etc/nginx/conf.d
```

Set Nginx general settings.

# nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

Create Nginx site config.

# cp /usr/share/pihole/configs/nginx.example.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/pi-hole.conf

Set system hosts correctly.

# nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1              localhost
ip.address.of.pihole   pi.hole myhostname

Stop and disable "systemd-resolved.service".
```
# systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service
# systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service
```
Note

This is done because port 53 is used by "systemd-resolved.service" which will conflict with "pihole-FTL.service" port 53.

Set php-fpm.service overrides.

# systemctl edit php-fpm.service

[Service]
ReadWritePaths = /srv/http/pihole
ReadWritePaths = /run/pihole-ftl/pihole-FTL.port
ReadWritePaths = /run/log/pihole/pihole.log
ReadWritePaths = /run/log/pihole-ftl/pihole-FTL.log
ReadWritePaths = /etc/pihole
ReadWritePaths = /etc/hosts
ReadWritePaths = /etc/hostname
ReadWritePaths = /etc/dnsmasq.d/
ReadWritePaths = /proc/meminfo
ReadWritePaths = /proc/cpuinfo
ReadWritePaths = /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
ReadWritePaths = /tmp

Note

This step is required to grant Pi-Hole web interface access to the necessary files/directories.

External Links¶

Last update: September 16, 2020