OK this is going to be unbelievable to some of you.  I still have a dotnetnuke site running DotNetNuke 1.0.10.  I want to upgrade this site to the latest security release of 4.8.3.  Anyone want to share the best upgrade path to take?  DO not ask me why this site is still on such an old release.  I was just given this site to manage.  :-(  Thanks for any help!

I highly recommend adding 4.4.1 as a stop between 3.3.7 and 4.8.3.  In all of my 2.x or older upgrades I have had to make that stop for one reason or another.

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For what you're doing you won't be using an upgrade package at all, imho.

You'll most likely need to copy values from the old web.config, to the new web.config on each of your upgrades. The main values are

connection string (there might be multiple)

machinekey (probably won't come into play until 2.*)

objectqualifier (if defined, if not you're golden)

databaseowner (if something other than DBO you'll need to copy this each time)

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