Controllers not loading, no logging either

the htaccess is identical to the default one in the repository
the config is identical to the default one in the repository (plus the baseURL change)

I literally downloaded the repository, changed the baseURL and uploaded it. The four steps in the installation documentation here:
https://bcit-ci.github.io/CodeIgniter4/i...index.html
(well 3, while I do have a database, I figure, one step at a time)