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We are using SP2013 standard on-premise. There are 2 existing site collection. Both are built with team site template with publishing infrastructure enabled. The URLs are:

http://sharepoint.com/sites/Asite/
http://sharepoint.com/sites/Bsite/

I need to move Asite under Bsite like http://sharepoint.com/sites/Bsite/Asite/. So I export Asite with Export-SPWeb. Then create a blank subsite using publishing site template as http://sharepoint.com/sites/Bsite/Asite/. Finally I use Import-SPWeb to import towards http://sharepoint.com/sites/Bsite/Asite/

But it returns error:

Import-SPWeb : Cannot import site. The exported site is based on the template STS#0 but the destination site is based on the template CMSPUBLISHING#0. You can import sites only into sites that are based on same template as the exported site.

May I know how to work around it?

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In this scenario, you have to create the new subsite without any template then import the Asite on that url.

New-SPWeb -Name "Asubsite" -Url "http://sharepoint.com/sites/Bsite/Asite/"

Now run the import command.

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  • Thanks. I never know it is so easy. The import is done but now all pages under /Bsite/Asite/ are throwing "InvalidPageLayoutException". I checked the pages are using layout "/sites/Asite/_catalogs/masterpage/ASite_PageLayout.aspx". Do you know how to fix?
    – Mark L
    Apr 13, 2016 at 4:29
  • I m not sure about it... but if you open a new question with complete detail..someone else will respond....i am afraid as this not scope of question so easily ignored...mark this post as asnwer and start new one.
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Apr 13, 2016 at 4:38

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