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4/2/2006 1:54 PM
 
Mike Frith


Joined: 9/19/2004
Posts: 10
I currently have a 2.x (pre 2.1.2 I think) version running but I'm planning on pushing 4.0.2 onto the site. There aren't a lot of 3rd party modules or work done on the site. Would I be better off trashing the site and starting from scratch? My gut says start from scratch.

thanks
Mike
 
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4/2/2006 4:56 PM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

You want my honest opinion?  If you had place to do a backup, then try it, you could give it a go, but I don't think there is an official upgrade path set yet from DNN 2>> DNN4. 

Your third party modules - you'd need to check they work in DNN4.

For me, I ended up redoing my DNN3.22 site from DNN2 as I tried for about 2 weeks to get it to work, but admittedly, I had some mods to the core tabs that interfered with the sql scripts from firing.

Depending on how much information you have in there, along with your time frame, sometimes a new slate is quicker to work with than trying to upgrade.

Just my opinion from someone who's done it in Feb and the whole experience was quite horrible, but I did have some self inflicted changes which I promised I will NEVER do again.

Your guy is correct in my opinion.

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4/2/2006 9:03 PM
 
Mike Frith


Joined: 9/19/2004
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Thanks Nina,

I spent some time setting up the 3rd party mods, but not that much. The site is mostly used for announcements and current events for a club, it doesn't get that much traffic.

thanks again.
Mike
 
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4/2/2006 9:24 PM
 
Jack Hoelz

www.repfiles.net
Joined: 6/21/2005
Posts: 608
You could try an upgrade to at least allow you to export the contents of your modules. But if there is'nt that much there I would scrub it and start from scratch, for a small site it will probably take less time.
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4/4/2006 1:42 PM
 
Carrie Kauffman

Joined: 10/7/2003
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I didn't want to start a new thread, but I have the same issue.  However, the site I am needing to upgrade has a LOT of data (not cutom or third party modules that are needed). In addition, I can't remeber if the current installation is 2.x or 3.x...if there a quick way to tell?
 
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