Hello, I spent a few hours already googling every possible reason and way to fix it and i can't seem to be able to. lighttpd status is up and running. Tried re-installing, repairing, reflashing new pi OS.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 2106 May 13 01:52 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
-----head of error.log------
2021-05-12 23:52:11: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-12 23:55:28: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-12 23:55:30: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:01:55: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:02:49: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:08:21: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:08:22: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:15:26: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:15:28: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:22:27: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:22:29: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:22:43: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:23:34: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:29:17: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:29:19: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:44:13: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:44:15: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:50:05: (server.c.958) [note] graceful shutdown started
2021-05-13 00:50:05: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 12306
2021-05-13 00:50:05: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 00:58:27: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 00:58:27: (server.c.428) unlink failed for: /run/lighttpd.pid 2 No such file or directory
2021-05-13 00:58:29: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
2021-05-13 01:03:33: (server.c.2059) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2021-05-13 01:03:35: (server.c.1464) server started (lighttpd/1.4.53)
Typing the 192.168.0.3/admin (also tried the named syntax I found while trying to fix it), in all cases browser times out, "This site can't be reached". Even tried different browsers.
I can't believe I didn't check this, and I apologize for wasting your time.... I thought the install would've put an exception in UFW and it didn't, I just allowed port 80 through and now it works.