I got pointed to
this source and was missing the
wifi manager.
ESP8266 WiFi Connection manager with web captive portalI added the wifi manager and hosted the source
here.
Upload the source with the
arduino IDE. On the first run the ESP8266 will fire a wifi hotspot and after you are connected you can find the wifi configuration page at
http://192.168.4.1When successful You will end up with something like this
I used the esp8266-01S for this with the usb adapter.