Thanks for the note. It seems not to be reading the .htaccess file, everything was green at install. I will look at *AllowOverride* in the Apache config.
A related question - and a suggestion - do you maintain a LAMP + PW autoinstall package for Ubuntu LTS versions or would the PW team consider it? I think it would be a good marketing move to be able to spin up a PW server on Digital Ocean, Linode, etc.