Lighttpd Reverse Proxy with Pi-hole - reverse-proxy

Question

Aware this question has being asked a few times and I've read a lot of the solutions but I still cannot get my reverse proxy to work.
I have a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole.
Hostname: pi-hole.local
IP address: 192.168.1.254
Lighttpd port: 8080
I want to visit http://pi-hole.local in my browser without :8080 and view the Pi-hole admin page.
ATM, I have to type http://pi-hole.local:8080.
I have added mod_proxy to:
server.modules = (
...
mod_proxy
...
)
I have server.port = 8080 and I have this block:
$HTTP["url"] =~ "pi-hole.local" {
proxy.server = ( "" => ("" => ( "host" => "192.168.1.254", "port" => 8080 )))
}

Answer 1

pi-hole.local is the URI authority, not the url-path.
$HTTP["host"] =~ "pi-hole.local" {
proxy.server = ( "" => ("" => ( "host" => "192.168.1.254", "port" => 8080 )))
}
Separately, for http://pi-hole.local to work, lighttpd also needs to be listening on port 80. Is that the case on your system? Is something else listening on port 80? If not, then $SERVER["socket"] == "*:80" {} will have lighttpd additionally listening on port 80, in addition to server.port = 8080. However, I have not looked into how pi-hole uses this, so you should test that pi-hole still works the way you want it to.
Instead of mod_proxy, a better way might be mod_redirect.
server.modules += ("mod_redirect")
$HTTP["host"] =~ "pi-hole.local" {
url.redirect = ("" => "http://pi-hole.local:8080${url.path}${qsa}")
}