Multisite not creating subdirectories

I’ve trawled Google search results all day but found nothing that solves my problem.

I’ve followed the instructions and installed the multisite correctly, insofar as it worked. I have access to the dashboard and am able to ‘create’ new sites. I’ve created several! But I can’t visit any of them, nor can I access their admin/dashboard. The pages just don’t exist. Tables have been created in database. My superuser access sees the sites listed.

If I go to the newly created site (https://ameliabeare.com/dionomesage) 404 Not found.

If I try to visit the newly created site dashboard (https://ameliabeare.com/dionomesage/wp-admin/) 404 Not found.

I see no new folders created.

I’ve installed this on a ‘home server’, so I suspect there’s some setting somewhere in httpd or php that I’ve missed. But if ANYONE could point me in the direction of how to properly create/access/edit sites, I’d be grateful.

Inside my htaccess I have:

BEGIN WordPress Multisite Using subfolder network type: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/htaccess/#multisite

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L] add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(..php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L] END WordPress Multisite

wpconfig looks like so:

define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );

define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘ameliabeare.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] );

(I’m sure there’s a better way to display the code, sorry.)