Actually, I hadn't... and I was thinking OMG... can it just be that? I just restarted it and no luck... still "The system cannot find the path specified".
I've also removed everything, created a new site from scratch, scopy'd the entire directory structure permissions and all, re-backed-up the SiteB database and restored to SiteA, etc. Still, the main page loads but every other page throws the 'cannot find' error.
I don't think its permission or metabase related, so I suspect some kind of dynamic page/pathing issue from the SQL database but I've been thru all the tables and none seem to have any site related paths specified other than portalalias and hostsettings. I ensured that the portalalias table for the new site only points to the new site, DNS is correct and I updated the hostsettings table to ensure SiteB.domain.com is the proper site URL. Still, it errors out. Why the main page would load and any other pages would not indicates a path issue with the tabIDs but I can't find the relationship.
Thanks for trying to help tho. Other ideas? Anyone?
Making a dupe copy of a DNN site shouldn't be this difficult, especially if doing it all on the same IIS server and SQL db with unique names... I know that detaching and moving the db to another db server and moving the site to another web server works fine. Why in the heck I can't seem to clone one is a bit frustrating.
DNN Team????