Good Day, DNNers,

Earlier this evening, I began the process of upgrading DNN v4.5.5 to v.4.8.2. This afternoon, 4.5.5. ran just fine (e.g., my hosting company's Servers were running IIS6 with ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005 without any problem).

After the upgrade...DNN fails with a "Server Error in '/' Application" diagnostic (this inspite of setting customErrors mode="Off" in the web.config file; see below).

Here's a list of what I've done:

1. Downloaded v4.8.2 from the DNN site.

2. Unzipped it to a local directory.

3. Downloaded web.config and made a local copy of it with a new name.

4. Edited release.config with the excerpted entries below, then saved and uploaded the file as web.config.

5. Opened a new browser IE7 and navigated to my hosted server IP address.

6. ~3 seconds later, received the above mentioned "Server Error in '/' Application" diagnostic.

Have trashed around for hours without making any headway.

Welcome all suggestions and thanks!

Rick

connectionStrings> Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express -->add key="InstallationDate" value="3/24/2008"/>appSettings>

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<!--

<!--

/>

<add

name="SiteSqlServer"

connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"

providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005

<add

name="SiteSqlServer"

connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=;pwd=;"

providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

<

*************EXCERPTED**************

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</