Fresh install won't run

I guess you want to see the part of the configuration file where modules are loaded.
And yes of course it makes sense that C I isn't the issue...

This would be something like this:

Code:

# -- Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support ------------------------------------- #
# NOTE: Further modules can be found in '/etc/httpd/modules'.

# --- Authentication --- #
LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so

... snip

#--- PHP --- #
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apache_HTTP_Server#PHP
#LoadModule php_module modules/libphp.so

# --- URL, header and file control/manipulation/redirections --- #
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
#LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so

# Apache 1.3.6 up replaced mod_rewrite with
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

# But for codeigniter 4.5.3 or higher we still need it
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

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