Having successfully upgraded my site from DNN 4.3.5 to DNN 4.4.1, I want to upgrade next to 4.6.2. Since I've updated some items in production, I took a full backup of everything and put it on my test site - and it won't load. Head scratching here. Here's what I did:
Deleted all the files in the directory I'm using, which has all the IIS permissions set and is defined as a virtual directory in IIS. Used FileZilla to download the production web site to that directory. The downloaded included a current backup of the SQL database. I modified the connection strings in the web.config, restored my test database from the backup and changed the portalAlias field to "localhost/osc." I try to bring up the site and I get, "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page." Restarting IIS doesn't help.
What can I be doing wrong?? Since I last moved the production site to test, I've changed the production database server from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 - I assumed this would be fine since my test system uses SQL Server 2005 Express. I've made no changes to my IIS settings. The web.config is there. Any suggestions??
It was working this morning; I tried to upgrade then to 4.6.2, and the upgrade went wrong somehow (I think I screwed up the unzip). I realized I hadn't taken a full backup prior to upgrading, so I did what should have been a routine site move - and it's gone south.