I have a working DNN portal that I have upgraded several times over the past 3 years.  When I look at the Host Setting page, I see that my current version is 04.04.01.  Two weeks ago, I copied that portal to an external hosting site and successfully got it operational.  This is currently a test site as my real site is still running on another dedicated server.

Tonight I tried to upgrade to v 4.6.2 and came across a couple of errors after backing up my database and overlaying my source code with the contents of the install zip file.

The first error was a permissions issue on \\DotNetNuke.config.  After reading severa lforum posts, I copied \config\DotNetNuke.config to my root directory, which resulted in the second error:

[ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type]
   System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) +2843963
   DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String ObjectProviderType, String ObjectProviderName, String ObjectNamespace, String ObjectAssemblyName, Boolean UseCache) +582
   DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String ObjectProviderType, String ObjectNamespace, String ObjectAssemblyName) +17
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.Data.DataProvider.CreateProvider() +38
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.Data.DataProvider..cctor() +13

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.Data.DataProvider' threw an exception.]
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.Data.DataProvider.Instance() +0
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.AspNetMembershipProvider..cctor() +5

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.AspNetMembershipProvider' threw an exception.]

[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
   System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) +0
   System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache) +103
   System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache) +268
   System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) +66
   DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String ObjectProviderType, String ObjectProviderName, String ObjectNamespace, String ObjectAssemblyName, Boolean UseCache) +582
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.MembershipProvider.CreateProvider() +38
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.MembershipProvider..cctor() +13

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.MembershipProvider' threw an exception.]
   DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.MembershipProvider.Instance() +0
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController..cctor() +5

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController' threw an exception.]
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetUserCountByPortal(Int32 portalId) +0
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalInfo.get_Users() +17
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings.GetPortalSettings(Int32 TabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo) +1302
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings..ctor(Int32 tabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo) +83
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.OnBeginRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +2874
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64

Right now I don't know where I stand, as I could have screwed up one or more of the following:
   1 - my web.config file
   2 - FTPing the upgrade source files
   3 - my database
   4 - or anything else

If anyone has any insight, I would appreciate it.  Currently, this is a test site, so I have the liberty of restoring this from my production site and re-trying the upgrade.

Thanks!

It appears that since the upgrade did not complete properly several obsolete dll files were left in the /bin folder. See my reply to this thread:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/107/threadid/193052/scope/posts/Default.aspx

It looks like you also have the old AspNetMembershipProvider dll there as well which can be deleted. This was not on my list.  I would suggest that you compare the dll files in the /bin folder of your upgraded site with those in the /bin folder of the v 4.6.2 install to see which ones may be obsolete. Be careful not to delete any module related dll's which are necessary to your presently installed modules.  As this was a test upgrade, you may wish to restore to your backup and try again now that the permissions issue has been taken care of.

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From 4.4.1 To 4.6.0

I delete:

AuthenticationSettings.ascx and the associated code behind file
loggoff.aspx and the associated code behind file
signin.ascx and the associated code behind file
WindowsSignin.aspx and the associated code behind file

DotNetNuke.Authentication.ADSI.dll
    DotNetNuke.Authentication.ADSIProvider.dll
    DotNetNuke.DNNScheduler.SqlDataProvider.dll
    DotNetNuke.Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Authentication.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Compression.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.DNNMembership.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Exception.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Personalization.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewrite.dll
    DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UsersOnline.dll
    DotNetNuke.Provider.DBLoggingProvider.SqlDataProvider.dll
    DotNetNuke.Provider.Membership.SqlDataProvider.dll
    FreeTextBox.dll

TFB3htmlEditorProvider folder

See if this can help. Thank you all