Pages not showing up (error 404 instead)

My pages are present inside the admin dashboard, but on the front-end error 404 shows up. I’m working on win7/xampp, using my custom theme, I have only 2 plugins (Pods and Classic Editor). Tried deactivating them one by one, while experimenting with settings->permalink section, clearing cache after every attempt to ensure that is not the problem. Deleted htaccess, WP creates new one and it looks ok, pasting the code here:

# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

My WP is in my main directory, so htaccess should be correct. I then went to check the httpd.conf of Apache to see if this is commented:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

It was not commented so it should be working. Then I went to change this piece of code in the httpd.conf:

#
# Deny access to the entirety of your server's filesystem. You must
# explicitly permit access to web content directories in other 
# <Directory> blocks below.
#
<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

I changed it to AllowOverride Yes and Require all granted – still did not work. Changed back and went to this piece of code below it:

DocumentRoot "E:/Server/htdocs"
<Directory "E:/Server/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

I have limited knowledge and do not understand how I should go about fixing my issue. Everything else is working perfectly. When I update my permalinks, they lead to their correct URLs, but the pages don’t open. I read a lot of support threads before opening this one and nothing helped. Some guy said he fixed his issue by adding “options +FollowSymLinks” to his htaccess. I tried to add this to in the final line and it still didn’t work. Starting to lose my mind, any help appreciated.