Can't access pihole admin page after update to v6.0.4

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My pihole has been up and run perfectly for the past 2 years, not missing a beat. I installed pihole and unbound, using the dns port 5335 at 127.0.0.1#5335
Today, I run pihole -up and was informed the following has been up-to-date
Core version is v6.0.4 (Latest: v6.0.4)
Web version is v6.0.1 (Latest: v6.0.1)
FTL verion is v6.0.2 (Latest: v6.0.2)
During the update process, I was informed that the "lightptd" is no longer needed and will be removed. I then click yes to agree to remove.
The Ubuntu server where the pihole is installed was restarted to ensure all services start fresh. Now, I can no longer using the non https IP address to login the admin page e.g. if I try http://10.5.5.93/admin/ --> It throws error "the site refuse to connect"
If I use https://10.5.5.93/admin/ --> The browser re-direct me to our openVPN server admin page, which is accessible by "https://10.5.5.93:943/admin/" (We also run OpenVPN Access server on the same Ubuntu server as the pihole)

What I have tried so far
I have tried to restart the FTL service, delete all browsing cache, etc... nothing works.
I then tried
sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :80 = LISTEN
---> I got the error:
grep: =: No such file or directory
grep: LISTEN: No such file or directory

Debug file content
.....
[webserver]
domain = "pi.hole"
acl = ""
port = "8080o,443os,[::]:8080o,[::]:443" ^[[91m### CHANGED^[[0m, default = "80o,443os,[::]:80o,[::]:443os"
threads = 0
[webserver.session]
timeout = 1800
restore = true
[webserver.tls]
cert = "/etc/pihole/tls.pem"
[webserver.paths]
webroot = "/var/www/html"
webhome = "/admin/"
[webserver.interface]
boxed = true
theme = "default-darker" ^[[91m### CHANGED^[[0m, default = "default-auto"
.........

Anything that I am missing?
Thank you very much

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After searching around, I found from other post this command:
sudo pihole-FTL --config webserver.port "80,443,[::]:80,[::]:443"
Which will allow you to change/set the port the webserver use to 80 or 443. It works in my case

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Check if lighttpd was really deinstalled.
If not, do it as there is usually no use of this package anymore.

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Has a similar ccase and in my case, this did the trick, thx!!
I missed that information during update and I had it still installed.
This helped in my case: sudo apt remove lighttpd --purge -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean -y
and then

sudo killall pihole-FTL
sudo rm /dev/shm/FTL*
sudo systemctl restart pihole-FTL

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This was the solution for me too. Thank you!

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