I entered the following in the wp-config.php file as instructed.
\ndefine(‘MULTISITE’, true);
\ndefine(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);
\ndefine(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘34.83.40.35’);
\ndefine(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘\/’);
\ndefine(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
\ndefine(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
\nand added this in the .htaccess file replaceing what was there.
\n\t\tRewriteEngine On
\nRewriteBase \/
\nRewriteRule ^index\\.php$ – [L]<\/p>\n
# add a trailing slash to \/wp-admin
\nRewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin\/ [R=301,L]<\/p>\n
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
\nRewriteRule ^ – [L]
\nRewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
\nRewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?(.*\\.php)$ $2 [L]
\nRewriteRule . index.php [L]
\nwhat I get when I log out is Error establishing a database connection<\/p>\n
If I comment out the line added to wp-config.php, I get my site back but it is not a Multisite. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11464672","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-google-cloud","topic-tag-multisite","topic-tag-wp-config-php"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11464672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11464672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}