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To anyone else who may have this issue in the future, the solution is you need to have a domain assigned to the droplet.
You can’t enable a sub-domain multisite without a domain (i.e. just the ip address).
@parsons hello, have tried following these 2 tutorials?
How To Set Up Multiple WordPress Sites Using Multisite - Apache
How To Set Up WordPress Multisite with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 - Nginx