Welcome To How To Install/Use Putty

This page will go through how to install Pihole onto Docker

Setting the software up

This is fairly simple all you will need to do is to SSH into the docker VM and paste in the following commands:

sudo docker run -d \

    –name pihole \

    -p 53:53/tcp -p 53:53/udp \

    -p 80:80 \

    -p 443:443 \

    -e TZ=”America/New_York” \

    -v “$(pwd)/etc-pihole/:/etc/pihole/” \

    -v “$(pwd)/etc-dnsmasq.d/:/etc/dnsmasq.d/” \

    –dns=127.0.0.1 –dns=1.1.1.1 \

    –restart=unless-stopped \

    pihole/pihole:latest

Port 53 already in use

If port 53 is already in use run these commands one at a time then rerun the above script it should then work correctly

systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service

systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service

How to set the password for PIHole

the command below will give you a random password:

sudo docker logs pihole | grep random

if you want to set your own password use these commands:

sudo docker exec -it pihole /bin/bash

then enter in your sudo password

then type

pihole -a -p

now you can enter in your new password then confirm it by entering it again