diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/chronometer.sh b/advanced/Scripts/chronometer.sh
index 757df9be..7431c212 100755
--- a/advanced/Scripts/chronometer.sh
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/chronometer.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LC_NUMERIC=C
 
 # Retrieve stats from FTL engine
 pihole-FTL() {
-    ftl_port=$(cat /var/run/pihole-FTL.port 2> /dev/null)
+    ftl_port=$(cat /run/pihole-FTL.port 2> /dev/null)
     if [[ -n "$ftl_port" ]]; then
         # Open connection to FTL
         exec 3<>"/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/$ftl_port"
diff --git a/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service b/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
index f32a5e89..ab7f8f2b 100644
--- a/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
+++ b/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides:          pihole-FTL
-# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
-# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
+# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $network
+# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $network
 # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
 # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
 # Short-Description: pihole-FTL daemon
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 ### END INIT INFO
 
 FTLUSER=pihole
-PIDFILE=/var/run/pihole-FTL.pid
+PIDFILE=/run/pihole-FTL.pid
 
 get_pid() {
     # First, try to obtain PID from PIDFILE
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ start() {
     touch /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole.log
     touch /run/pihole-FTL.pid /run/pihole-FTL.port
     touch /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases
-    mkdir -p /var/run/pihole
+    mkdir -p /run/pihole
     mkdir -p /var/log/pihole
-    chown pihole:pihole /var/run/pihole /var/log/pihole
+    chown pihole:pihole /run/pihole /var/log/pihole
     # Remove possible leftovers from previous pihole-FTL processes
     rm -f /dev/shm/FTL-* 2> /dev/null
-    rm /var/run/pihole/FTL.sock 2> /dev/null
+    rm /run/pihole/FTL.sock 2> /dev/null
     # Ensure that permissions are set so that pihole-FTL can edit all necessary files
     chown pihole:pihole /run/pihole-FTL.pid /run/pihole-FTL.port
     chown pihole:pihole /etc/pihole /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases 2> /dev/null
diff --git a/advanced/lighttpd.conf.debian b/advanced/lighttpd.conf.debian
index f96c2d4b..dab5c03e 100644
--- a/advanced/lighttpd.conf.debian
+++ b/advanced/lighttpd.conf.debian
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ server.document-root        = "/var/www/html"
 server.error-handler-404    = "/pihole/index.php"
 server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
 server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
-server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
+server.pid-file             = "/run/lighttpd.pid"
 server.username             = "www-data"
 server.groupname            = "www-data"
 server.port                 = 80
diff --git a/advanced/lighttpd.conf.fedora b/advanced/lighttpd.conf.fedora
index 22299248..ea340e3f 100644
--- a/advanced/lighttpd.conf.fedora
+++ b/advanced/lighttpd.conf.fedora
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ server.document-root        = "/var/www/html"
 server.error-handler-404    = "/pihole/index.php"
 server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
 server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
-server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
+server.pid-file             = "/run/lighttpd.pid"
 server.username             = "lighttpd"
 server.groupname            = "lighttpd"
 server.port                 = 80
diff --git a/automated install/basic-install.sh b/automated install/basic-install.sh
index ac643037..ec4556e8 100755
--- a/automated install/basic-install.sh	
+++ b/automated install/basic-install.sh	
@@ -1433,8 +1433,8 @@ installConfigs() {
             sed -i 's/^\(server\.error-handler-404\s*=\s*\).*$/\1"pihole\/custom\.php"/' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
         fi
         # Make the directories if they do not exist and set the owners
-        mkdir -p /var/run/lighttpd
-        chown ${LIGHTTPD_USER}:${LIGHTTPD_GROUP} /var/run/lighttpd
+        mkdir -p /run/lighttpd
+        chown ${LIGHTTPD_USER}:${LIGHTTPD_GROUP} /run/lighttpd
         mkdir -p /var/cache/lighttpd/compress
         chown ${LIGHTTPD_USER}:${LIGHTTPD_GROUP} /var/cache/lighttpd/compress
         mkdir -p /var/cache/lighttpd/uploads