Hi all,
I'm trying to ease the access to Pi-Hole with a ... dns entry 
but it fails 
I get a message prompted "Blocked by Pi-Hole"
Idea
To keep it simple, I run Pi-Hole on port 807 and on the debian server I have apache2 on the same server that handles all reverse proxies.
Later I will use Apache as main webserver but now I want to learn about the reverse proxies.
I want dns.homenetwork.lan to internally proxy to 192.168.2.7:807/admin and present the Pi-Hole admin page.
Situation
PiHole is set as DNS server on the network and the internal DNS on the router is the first DNS entry for Pi-Hole, then the OpenDNS servers.
I have a local entry dns.homenetwork.lan that points in the DNS server from the router to 192.168.2.7.
The lighttp server is set to port 807 with the change of
server.port = 807
Testing 192.168.2.7:807/admin gives with a full working Pi-Hole admin interface.
Then I installed Apache and activated the reverse proxy modules.
I made a config file as follows, enabled the site and reloaded apache.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin dns@homenetwork.lan
ServerName dns.homenetwork.lan
DefaultType text/html
ProxyRequests off
ProxyPreserveHost Off
ProxyPass / http://192.168.2.7:807/admin/index.php
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.2.7:807/admin/index.php
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
When I surf to dns.homenetwork.lan, the page is redirected to dns.homenetwork.lan/admin but the message 'Blocked by Pi-hole' is presented.
Looking further I find in the error files fron pi-hole:
2018-03-18 13:03:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: file(http://127.0.0.1/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/queryads.php?domain=dns.homenetwork.lan&bp): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 136
2018-03-18 13:03:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_filter() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137
2018-03-18 13:03:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137
Analyzing this, I see there is no indication of port 807.
Manually entering
http://192.168.2.7:807/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/queryads.php?domain=dns.homenetwork.lan
gives me feedback that it is found in the whitelist (where I placed it earlier assuming that was the error).
So, I think this is php related. Can somebody help me?
IMHO it should be possible to just reverse proxy from an apache server to a lighttp server on another port on the same server.
Mario