Pi-Hole-on-Google-Compute-Engine-Free-Tier-with-Full-Tunnel-and-Split-Tunnel-Wireguard-VPN-Configs VS wirehole

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There might be many of guides and tutorials available for installing pi-hole in Oracle Always Free cloud. I have been using the installation script from here used for Google Cloud for 2 years with few modifications. Today I like to share it with this community. This is a straight script which sets up the wireguard & pi-hole and doesn't require terraform or docker.

I followed this tutorial and set up PiHole on GCP. It works, both with split tunnelling and full tunnelling. However, I need to have the VPN app on all the time for it to work. So I wanted to set it up behind my router and I found Option B on this website, which I couldn't make sense of it (I am mostly a novice). Is there a way to set it up with a TP-Link Archer A6?

Other way is that you can have a vps, setup wireguard server there (with pivpn) then connect your pc and phone to that server, I use this tutorial but might be confusing

https://github.com/rajannpatel/Pi-Hole-on-Google-Compute-Engine-Free-Tier-with-Full-Tunnel-and-Split-Tunnel-Wireguard-VPN-Configs#full-tunnel-or-split-tunnel-ipv6--ipv4-wireguard-vpn-connections-to-an-ad-blocking-pi-hole-server-from-your-android-ios-chrome-os-linux-macos--windows-devices

I sent up a PiHole via Google for free (guide on GitHub). Unfortunately, like all methods like this (e.g. $10 Adguard), you’re not blocking terribly much anymore (outsmarted, cat and mouse). One example - Google ads (the not-so-annoying ones at tops of search results) aren’t blocked.

Shameless plug for an alternative?

> WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole is all you need

Try Wirehole, runs wireguard + pihole in containers so you have the added bonus of ad blocking. Just run the docker-compose file and you're good to go.

I have set up the Wirehole Docker stack following the github page https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole. I got it up and running and connected my phone to the vpn successfully. I run into the issue where I lose internet access and also can't connect to anything on my local network after connecting to the vpn. I have tried a few different things and nothing has fixed my issue so far. I forked the wirehole repo https://github.com/graybound/wirehole and made some changes in hopes of fixing the issue but to no avail. Does anyone know anything about Wirehole or Wireguard and is willing to help? I would've posted more troubleshooting steps but I didn't want to make this super long.

This is the repository that I use: https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

uBlock Origin locally, as well as a Wirehole instance hosted on a remote VPS providing a Wireguard VPN with DNS level adblocking via PiHole.