Loading WP in root screwed up other WP installs on server

  • I have a server (w2008 with iis7.5) and domain with a lot of different WP installs.

    All of the following represent WP installations.

    x.com/stuff
    x.com/programs/recent
    x.com/programs/asia
    x.com/sandbox/1
    x.com/sandbox/2
    x.com/requests

    I have been redirecting x.com to y.com for some time now – with only the WP subsites in use but would like to take off the redirect and start using the root url.

    However when I install WP (fresh 3.8.1) in the root (inetpub/wwwroot) it basically breaks every website that I have. I was having various issues, from the site not coming up, to permalinks not working, to not being able to get theme files.

    I tried taking out the web.config files on each install and those not coming up came up but of course the permalinks weren’t working.

    What are the steps I need to do to get the root working without killing the rest of the WP installs?

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