iridiax, thanks for your response.
the 404 errors were being caused because the .htaccess file was not being written. I manually put one in there, no problems now.
Here’s what I manually inserted into my .htaccess file
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
thanks again!