Adding new sites to Multisite won’t register in Dashboard

Have a look at your vhost and check for ‘allow override=All … If this is also a new server it might explain the problems

See my post here on how to check your apache config

You might also like to check that the folder permissions are set correctly for WordPress ie www-data (the Apache user on Ubunutu servers) needs to have own/read/write everything in your WordPRess directory or be in the same group (this is important for plugins to run)