So I've almost gotten everything running - there was an additional item that needed to be added to apache2.conf to enable .htaccess overrides:
<Directory />
AllowOverride ALL
</Directory>
Once that was done they all came up, even with SSL. And there was a plugin also causing problems that I no longer use, so simply deleting it resolved the issue. That's the good news.
The bad news is that it now takes 6... count 'em 6... whole... seconds for each new page to render.
Don't know why the old one is so fast and the new one is so slow, but that's a showstopper as well.
Two problems resolved, one big problem remains
So I've almost gotten everything running - there was an additional item that needed to be added to apache2.conf to enable .htaccess overrides:
<Directory />
AllowOverride ALL
</Directory>
Once that was done they all came up, even with SSL. And there was a plugin also causing problems that I no longer use, so simply deleting it resolved the issue. That's the good news.
The bad news is that it now takes 6... count 'em 6... whole... seconds for each new page to render.
Don't know why the old one is so fast and the new one is so slow, but that's a showstopper as well.