[SOLVED] Pihole admin webserver ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Expected Behaviour:

webserver under XX/admin or pi.hole/admin should start

Actual Behaviour:

i get an error:
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/mvrmz7cw10

Tried

pihole -update and -r (both options)

##What works
i can shh into my pi with putty

pihole -v
Pi-hole version is v5.3.1 (Latest: v5.3.1)
AdminLTE version is v5.5 (Latest: v5.5)
FTL version is v5.8.1 (Latest: v5.8.1)

pihole status
[✓] DNS service is listening
[✓] UDP (IPv4)
[✓] TCP (IPv4)
[✓] UDP (IPv6)
[✓] TCP (IPv6)

[✓] Pi-hole blocking is enabled

You appear to have a conflict with Apache, an unsupported web server.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Ports in use
*:3128 squid (IPv6)
*:22 sshd (IPv4)
*:22 sshd (IPv6)
*:81 apache2 (IPv6)
*:81 apache2 (IPv6)
*:81 apache2 (IPv6)
[53] is in use by pihole-FTL
[53] is in use by pihole-FTL
[4711] is in use by pihole-FTL
[4711] is in use by pihole-FTL

Please look in our Community Help category under Apache. There are a number of posts from users that have made this work.

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thank you very much,
since I had never set it up but had taken over a copy, I had relatively little idea. but it was not so difficult and I now look at all the settings.

what could have caused it to change from one day to the next?
actually i had not changed anything and the two services should have been listening to port 80 the whole time.

Solution for others:
Apache set to another port:

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