Hi all,

First of all I am extremely new to DNN.

Secondly, when I upgraded our DNN installation I was going from 4.3 to 4.5.3 and following this guide: http://www.mitchelsellers.com/Blogs/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/76/Upgrading-to-DotNetNuke-451-from-4x.aspx

What happened was I backed up my 4.3, I unzipped 4.5 to the proper location, I ran the install, had a few issues which were resolved (these consisted of the install not picking up the correct database/login credentials and a few other similar issues). After resolving the issues the installation screen came up and the bar was running. It ran for about 2 hours, then I lost connection with it. When I go back to the installation link it says "DotNetNuke Installation Wizard - Version 04.05.03     DotNetNuke is already Installed on this system."    When I go to a site that is located on this DNN, I get a 404 error page cannot be found.

Another thing that might help is that when I ran the install on auto (it didn't work due to the aforementioned database issues) it would say database install failed but the engine (or whichever word it used) was upgraded. I think that may be the cause of the problem...

I have no idea what I need to do to fix this. Can somebody please help?

Thanks!
Tony Rad

Tony,

I would recommend following Chris' recommendation and trying the upgrade again.  Now that you know the values 100% for sure that you need to update in the web.config you should be able to do a seamless upgrade.

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-Mitchel Sellers
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