Hi,

I'm working on upgrading a public site. I successfully upgraded from 5.0.6 to 7.0.4, and made a list of steps, and it worked. I've backed up this installation and saved the steps.  (Doing this all on  test server with test database)

Now I would like to upgrade to the latest - version 7.1.1.  On my first attempt, after overwriting the files with the upgrade (7.1.1) files, and loading the site to upgrade (/install/install.aspx?mode=upgrade), and fixing a couple errors along the way, the upgrade process began, but showed an error, saying access was denied to the path "Install/Cleanup/03.00.08.txt". Then the upgrade just hung at 21% ... and never completed. So I quit, and when I try to browse the site, the page was blank. Next try, the site did come up, but I am unable to log in.

Questions I have:

 - What do I need to do to get proper access to "install/cleanup/"?

 - Anything else I need to know about upgrading from 7.0.4 to 7.1.1? Any known changes/issues I should be aware o?

My basic process is:

- backup site files

 - check web.config (assure using correct test database, autoupgrade = false, etc

 - Assure proper framework & App pool in IIS (4.0)

- overwrite website files with 7.1.1 upgrade files

- load the site to upgrade - (url/install/install.aspx?mode=upgrade)

 Any help/advice is appreciated.

 thanks

 Tom

Thanks Sebastian, I will try again. Main question I have is, permissions. Do you know what I need to do to ensure the permissions are correct. Last attempt I made  threw an error "access denied to install/cleanup/".

Thanks very much