Searchingthis out, I found these threads. I changed the lighttpd server port to something other than 80 (888, 8080, etc) and restarted. Still not working. The redirects still fail and I cannot access Pi-Hole.
Regardless of the above, it appears that something during the dietpi-software uninstall process has rendered the particular device kaput. So I will have to reinstall dietpi fresh and start over. Thanks for your assistance and patience.
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