Raspberry Pi W/HA, WebCoRE, Pi Hole question

⚙️ Custom Apps and Drivers webCore
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I'm just now learning how to work with servers, linux and rasp-pi's. My question(s)?...

I have one running a pi hole. Then I have one running a local webCoRE server. Could the HA run next to WC?

Could all three run on the same pi or do I need a separate pi for each one? I'm assuming this is a no. The pi-hole makes the rasp run a slight bit warm...100f. I figure that can stay dedicated but I'm wondering what and if I can run things next to the WC server without breaking it.

In looking at the Apache server with WC though. However, with the symbolic links in that one would trying to login to a HA on there cause it to just jump to webCoRE or do they each get their own unique address?

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I’m not familiar with webcore server, but you could run HA on a RPi and use the AdGuard add-on for HA. AdGuard is similar to Pi Hole and has basically the same functionality. I’m sure you would find additional add-ons that you would want to use so I would recommend running HA on a dedicated RPi.

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Hmmm that's an interesting idea...doing it that way I could probably run my nordvpn hotspot with raspap next to it...unless there's a functionality for that in HA. lol.

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I use the WireGuard add-on in HA for my VPN. I found it to be significantly faster than running OpenVPN on a standalone RPi.

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Will the WireGuard act as a hotspot? I have a velop router that has no vpn capabilities and I'm testing something on my Google TV I think one of my apps actually snoops my Google TV for the VPN and blocks it if it's downloaded. I think if I can use an offboard VPN I can get around that lol.

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I'm not sure I understand this question. A hotspot and a VPN are two different functionalities.

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That was a brief question lol. Can I use the HA as a hotspot? I know there's guides to turn the rasp-pi into a hotspot so you can use it as a vpn router. I'm just curious if this possible through HA.

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I seen that. Apparently that doesn't give access to the internet like this will.

I'm going to try running the HA in a virtual environment and see how that works.

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I think there is confusion around what hotspot means. It seem that in that case they mean functioning like a AP and router to enable wireless acces between devices using rhe Pi as a router to create a wireless network. Not really what mot people will think of as a hotspot. It ia most commonly used to reference the ability for a phone to share its internet to other deices for internet access.

The pi is just a small conputer that has sone server os's available. As long as you have free cpu and ram you can run as many apps as you like on one pie. You just run the chance of a single failure breaking a bunch of stuff if you load it way up with a bunch of stuff.

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Ok so I was successfully able to get WC, the PiVPN for a home connection and PiHole all on one raspi. The pi hole works but I now have no way to access the GUI lol and I need to add blacklists. If I stop the apache service and stop it from booting on boot I can get to it. I'm guessing this has to do with that symbolic link. Somehow, I have to create another link that points to the pihole.

I'm going to dedicated my Pi4 to the above.

I'm going to use my 3b to make a raspAP with nordvpn as an external vpn. I just need to now figure out how to have a separate link to webcore's gui and the pihole gui at the same time.

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It is more likely that they are both using the same network port for their respective apps. This would mean which ever one starts first will be the first one to get the port. You can modify the listening port in the http.conf file for the Apache server. I am not sure about Pi-hole, but my guess is that it should be in the configuration options.

Standard HTTP uses port 80. So once you adjust the port for your browser to know how to connect you would need to specify the port in the URL like

http://pi-host-ip:8080

Another option would be to use something like Nginx Proxy manager to route to the correct port with a few other configuration options.

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Yeah I'm no where near that advanced yet. I'm going to try this next.

Who knows if webCoRE will run without breaking until I try it right? lol.

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this may also be a good option to change the Web Admin for pi-hole as well

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That's what I've been looking for!!!

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