Ok basically, I am not able to run alfresco. I am getting error 404 (starting the browser) or 500 for the share.
So much stuff has changed since the time I opened this thread (Migrated my server to Slack 13, newer Apache, MySQL, etc etc etc….) so instead of deleting this thread and creating a new one, I simply deleted the non-relevant posts (that contained out of date info) so please see the posts below for most up to date info.
many thanks!