How to revert to v5?

[davide-italy]

Hi,

I have so many issues with v6 that I would revert to v5.

In the forums everybody is suggesting to keep to die trying to fix v6., but I prefer to have a reliable v5 than a newer v6.

Is there anybody here that is so kindly to suggest how to install (even from scratch) a v5?

Thank you!!

[PromoFaux]

If you're using docker, just use an image from last year. First image this year (2025.02.0) is based on V6.

Really though, what's the issue you're having? There should now be fixes for all common issues since we've released

[rdustinb]

I seem to be in the same boat, I just updated my pihole container this morning and it seems to be running but the web interface is completely inaccessible. Right before the update it was fine.

It seems to be that v6 requires a web password now? Or that it requires https?

[rdwebdesign]

It seems to be that v6 requires a web password now?

If you didn't explicitly set an empty password in your compose file, the web interface will generate a new random password. Set the password with FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: '' in your compose file.

Or that it requires https?

It doesn't "require" https. The new web interface offers https in conjunction with http.

Are you using a env variable to change the web port to something else?

[davide-italy]

I reverted back to v5 doing a fresh installation:

1. download the latest v5 tgz file (v5.18.4.tar.gz)
2. edit the installation script (basic-install.sh):
   a) replacing "git clone" with "git clone --branch v5.18.4"
   b) my platform (Raspberry) didn't have the latest FTL available, so I added in row #2235 (just after the "fi" of "Determine which version of FTL to download") this line:
   url="https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/download/v5.25.2"
3. proceed with the standard installation executing the modified script "basic-install.sh"