John W Colby
jwcolby at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 13:29:14 CDT 2009
Steve, I did have 2.x. I put my site up years ago and DNN was pretty new. It used the old .net 1.x framework, and sql server 2000 AFAIK. In order to upgrade to 4.X the site had to go through 3.x first and I decided to hire the hosting company (WebHost4Life) to do the upgrade. They advertised the upgrade as a service that they would do for $45 which sounded like a deal. Well... It didn't go as planned. My site ended up at 4.X (4.12 I think?) but parts of it no longer functioned. Much of this was not their fault, I used some custom controls that no longer worked and that the author never upgraded. OTOH the admin user was trashed, it couldn't see much of the site even though the logged in user could and the host user could. It appears that I lost my user database, although the control that allowed me to see and manipulate the users was one of those custom controls that no longer functioned after the upgrade so it was tough to tell if they were in fact there. I was able to log in under my actual name so maybe they were there. In fact now that you mention it I might be able to go get the 4.x database (It is still there, just no domain name pointing to it any more). I did download the entire backup of the original 2.X site to my laptop here at the office, and AFAICT it included the db although getting it to work here at my office would seem problematic. Anyway, I decided to just take the opportunity top switch hosting companies and start all over with 4.X. Unfortunately I STILL ended up with a low 4.X version, 4.09, when the latest stable version (and considered very good) is like 4.9x. Sigh. I had the new web host do the DNN install. I have heard that 5.X is not stable yet and so asked for 4.x though I assumed (yea, I know) that it would be the latest 4.X. Sigh again. I am not too worried about the users. I think I had 400-500 users total I think, most of which probably never drop by. If they do, they will register again. I am happy to have made the switch, Having a 2.X site was very limiting. OTOH now I don't know how a bunch of stuff works, and I have to go find and buy modules all over again.. Are you a DNN geek? Can you answer my questions? Steve Erbach wrote: > John, > > Did you really have DotNetNuke 2.X (two dot X)? Gad! The oldest DNN > book I've got is for DNN 3.x. > > I presume that 2.X had SQL Server as a back-end. When you upgraded, > did you use the Upgrade version of DNN? I would think that it might > be worth the effort to import data from the 2.X SQL tables into the > 4.X tables. I went through some issues with messing around with DNN > on my web host. An upgrade went badly and I wound up manually > renaming all the existing DNN tables and then starting a fresh DNN > install with the latest version at the time. I changed the default > table prefix to "nuke_", for what it's worth. I was smart, for once: > I backed up the SQL Server stuff BEFORE making the drastic re-install. > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > >> This is a test that AccessD can send to my new email server. I have changed hosting companies and >> in the process upgraded from DotNetNuke 2.X to 4.X. As a result I lost all of my users on the other >> server (hosting company). It appears that it is non-trivial bordering on impossible to migrate said >> users so I would encourage all folks on AccessD who get this email to build a new user on my web site. >> >> I just modified the domain name pointers about an hour or two so it is possible that you might see >> my old site for another couple of hours, depending on how quickly your domain name servers refresh. >> >> Anyway, my new site is up. It will involve a rather large rebuild from what I have so I beg for >> your patience. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> > > -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com