klampl

Sorry, figured out how I could go to the site. another admin created a website http://webserver2.wordpress2.ctctel.com/blogs/ . I removed it and I get a 404 also.
I have gone to the extreme in this install. I deactivated and removed all plugins and removed all themes besides twentythirteen.
so as of now this site has no plugins.
Since multisite is built in do I need the plugin networks for WordPress?

Karl

I can do everything but visit the site.

I am the host. this is the only install of wordpress on the server.
that is why nothing is making sense.

Thanks for your help though, I appreciate it.

I deleted everything in the wordpress folder and emptied the trash.
I kept the following files index.php, .htaccess, and web.config from the root. I also kept the files wp-config.php from the blogs folder.
I downloaded 3.7.1 and extracted the zip into the root folder (wordpress) and renamed the wordpress folder to blogs.

I put index.php, .htaccess, and web.config into the root folder and wp-config.php into the blogs folder.
the web.config only holds the information that the network setup said to put in there. index.php only has:
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/blogs/wp-blog-header.php’ );

and the .htaccess has :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) blogs/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ blogs/$1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

the wp-config has:
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
/******************************** Multisite Network*/
/*first*/

define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
/*start network setup */
$base = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . ‘/’;
define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true);
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘wordpress2.ctctel.com’);
/*define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’);
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);*/
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);
/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

the site still has the error: “Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in E:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\blogs\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 1142”

Mika,
I had to guess on the .htaccess since when I installed the network it only showed web.config and wp-config.

I copied yours and over wrote the .htaccess in the root folder.
same result.

I got rid of the second one by removing wordpress-mu-domain-mapping.
the first on is still there.
I removed all plugins and I also removed all themes but one reinstalled a new theme and then removed the last on to be removed. I then re-installed the first theme (twenty thirteen).

out of ideas on my side.