In local.php (not accessible so configured through configuration manager)

   $conf['userewrite'] = '1';
   $conf['useslash'] = 1;

Copied .htaccess.dist to .htaccess, then in .htaccess, *une-**commented out lines shown in Red

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14 ## Uncomment these rules if you want to have nice URLs using
15 ## $conf['userewrite'] = 1 - not needed for rewrite mode 2
16 RewriteEngine on
17 #
18 ## Not all installations will require the following line. If you do,
19 ## change “/dokuwiki” to the path to your dokuwiki directory relative
20 ## to your document root.
21 RewriteBase /
22 #
23 ## If you enable DokuWikis XML-RPC interface, you should consider to
24 ## restrict access to it over HTTPS only! Uncomment the following two
25 ## rules if your server setup allows HTTPS.
26 #RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
27 #RewriteRule ^lib/exe/xmlrpc.php$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
28 #
29 RewriteRule ^_media/(.*) lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1 [QSA,L]
30 RewriteRule ^_detail/(.*) lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1 [QSA,L]
31 RewriteRule ^_export/([^/]+)/(.*) doku.php?do=export_$1&id=$2 [QSA,L]
32 RewriteRule ^$ doku.php [L]
33 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
34 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
35 RewriteRule (.*) doku.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
36 RewriteRule ^index.php$ doku.php

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and also changed line 21, specified the base directory ('/').