Hello,

In the documentation it says:

rfurdzik,

As you may know we actually take backward compatability very seriously, however, the Core Team was forced to make some hard decisions when faced with supporting ASP.Net 2.0 installations.  The development and compilation model are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT and largely incompatible.  We had to make some "breaking" changes in the file locations  and directory structure (DNN 4.x) but still allowed for 3.x private assemblies to work.  That is why we have maintained a 3.x and a 4.x code base that are basically identical except for the ASP.Net platform they are aimed at.  This has nothing to due with MS per se.  They are the maintainers of ASP.Net.  we chose to use their sandbox. They changed the rules so we adapted and will continue to do so as needed to support our user, developer and hosting community who wish to stay up to date with ASP.Net.  For now, that means supporting both code bases.

In addition, we do not know the specifics for every 3rd party module available so we can not advise on the exact details for moving the content and files for every 3rd party module. 

I would suggest an update to 3.2.2 if you are not comfortable or do not have the information from module vendors to do a manual 4.0 migration process.  It is functionally equivilent to 4.0.2

Hi everybody,

Presently I am using DNN 3.1.1. What steps should I follow to upgrade into DNN 4.x

Please help me...

Regards,

Sharanya

Thanks a lot for your answer. All I wanted to know if there is any guide describing details (step-by-step instructions). I have existing portal in DNN3 and now I want to copy content to DNN4 (portal content, admin and host settings etc.). Do I need to export Portal template? Do I need to copy content of Portals directory??? I understand that upgrade of custom modules is not supported.

Thanks a lot, I apologize about my previous comments, I just got frustrated, because no help is available on this issue.

Yes, you should install  4.02 Install.
(you should backup everything)

I followed the instructions, exactly step by step, and things went better than what I expected.
(I upgrade from:    3.1 -->  4.02      asp.net 1 ->  asp.net 2.0   sqlserver2000  --> sqlserver2005)

Good:
- no data lost
- no skin problems for all portals (15 portals)
- 1/5 of core modules working well


Bad:
- None of my custom modules are working
- 4/5 of core modules not working

So i'm working on that, rigth now..

here's the error i get on most of my modules:

Error: Text/HTML is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: connectionString ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: connectionString at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteReader(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Html.SqlDataProvider.GetHtmlText(Int32 moduleId) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Html.HtmlTextController.GetHtmlText(Int32 moduleId) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Html.HtmlModule.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

rfurdzik wrote:

How did you dropped it? Please give more details? Thanks.

• I unzipped the files over the current install.
• I replaced the current web.config with the release.config.
• I transferred my machine key settings.
• I configured my SQL connection strings.
• I set the site to run as a asp.net 2.0 site in IIS configuration.
• Then I browsed to the website and it upgraded. I only had custom modules and they work fine.

So after starting form scratch I got DNN 4 working, source version. I will manually recreate all settings...

However now after copying files to hosting provider and copying SQL there is some strange bahaviour. I wonder if this has something to do with encryption keys you have mentioned... But this is the first installation on the server, so I have used my local PC's web.config and changed SQL connection settings...

1) Seems security is all messed up. Different pages show on startup..

2) Child Portal is not accessible (yes I have changed Portal_Alias table). This is the message I am getting:

Server Error in '/APP' Application.

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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs.TabInfo.get_IsAdminTab() +67
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings.GetPortalSettings(Int32 TabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo) +3284
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings..ctor(Int32 tabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo) +83
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.OnBeginRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +3797
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64