No problems. I overlooked something very simple – adding the binding ‘https://www.lesjohnston.ca/’ to the web ‘https://lesjohnston.ca/’. Funny thing is, I never had to before. … Or did I?
Copying the database and the webs within inetpub WORKS. Those who say that a backup is absolutely needed are incorrect. I had NO backup – just the folders left over from the crashed HDD.