Hi,
Thanks for the response.
Here's your reply from the blog for anyone else's benefit:
I'm not following your problem Drew? If you extract the Install package, the modules are located in the Install folder, they get reinstalled, updating any of the core modules with the newer versions.
If you don't want to upgrade the modules, you can remove them from the install/modules folder. Either way, copying over the folders doesn't touch the module files in the BIN or Providerfolder. Unless of course you modified Core Provider files, of which I don't recommend when dealing with client work.
If you need to make changes to the FriendlyURL provider for example, I recommend creating a new project with new namespaces, for your new provider, that way, when you upgrade a DNN instance the changes to the core provider don't overwrite your changes. |
Bear with me, I'm doubly confused now!
I've extracted the zipped upgrade package and this package consists of all the normal dnn files including:
a bin folder
and a portals folder.
Now step 6 of your instructions (as well as everyone elses instructions) says:
Copy the new files, including the changed web.config file, over the old files.
Now if my original site has third party dll files in the bin folder and many portals in the portal folder, then when I copy the new FOLDER over the old, everything will get replaced.
I'm cleary misunderstanding this, where am I going wrong?
Thanks
Drew