Query before I start installing on RPi

Help
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Clueless here - please read with patience..
I am going to install PiHole on RPi 2B
To avoid the problem of Apache being installed which OS should I have on RPi2B in order to have the lighttpd installed?
And then will the automatic curl install simply make the PiHole work??

Thank you

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Use Raspberry Pi OS Lite and you should have no problems.

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thanks.

and on a different note.
How long do I need to wait before this forum no longer considers me as a new user and allows me to mention people by name??
Thank you for your help

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One last thing (I really hope so..)
I uninstalled PiHole, at least I thought I did.
Well now my nextcloudpi is not accessible from the network at all but the pihole works.
Don't know what I did other than I think I followed your advice...
Anyhow
So now I have a PiHole on my web browser and I even have two local client 127.0.0.1 and nextcloudpi
I can see the web interface, but I cannot find any way to add more clients.
I looked through the documentation - but it does not explain how to add more devices.
I don't want to make it for the whole network - only for a handful of devices.
Thank you

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You have a few options:

(1) make a new management group and assign those clients that you don't want to use Pi-hole to this group. Apply no blocking to that group. The clients will send their DNS queries to Pi-hole but there will be no blocking applied and the queries will pass through to the upstream resolver.

(2) Either manually or via DHCP settings (if you use Pi-hole for DHCP) assign a different DNS server to clients:

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many thanks

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