[SOLVED] Install other apps - GUI conflict...

[davem]

Hi all,

Just stumbled onto Snakeoil (LOVE the distro name) while looking for media server alternatives and am playing with this now. Although my primary purpose is LMS/Squeezebox my needs are also a little more broad.

I would like to install Plex media server - there are loads of how-to's out there but there appears to be a conflict with the GUI's based on testing with pi-hole (DNS ad blocker). Pihole gives you the option of either installing a web server or using the existing one and both options messed things up but luckily pihole is OK without the GUI so not a deal breaker.. However I found the following after testing.

1. Installed GUI to use existing web server.
http://snakeoil - gives the admin snakeoil console. OK
http://snakeoil/admin - should give the admin to pi-hole but redirects to the snakeoil admin page.

2. I then configured pihole to add web server to run on port 88 
http://snakeoil - gives the admin snakeoil console but missing data - error saying that REST API timed out.
http://snakeoil:88/admin - again redirected to snakeoil admin page

But to confuse things, http://snakeoil:9000 successfully brings up LMS. But I am guessing that LMS GUI does not use REST...

My linux skills are limited (& dangerous!) but am a little unclear how all this works together... is it because both snakeoil and pihole use REST on the same port ?? I guessed that changing the web listening port would also change the REST port but maybe not.
How would I approach installing Plex ? would it also conflict with the snakeoil console ? 
Where are the REST configs stored ??


Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

cheers