Dear Group,

I posted messages about my experiences upgrading along the recommended DNN upgrade path. I started with the path from 4.8.4 to 4.9.5.

1. I had a problem first with a file in the App_Browsers folder...with two files, actually. Joseph Craig got me past that one. Thank you!
2. Then there was a permissions problem with the 04.09.00.config file in the Portals/_default folder. I'm running DNN on a shared web host that I rent (NewTek), so I have limited ability to change file permissions. I am able to change the permissions for entire folders, however, and I changed the permissions for the _default folder and its contents to Read-Write-Execute-Delete from Read-Execute. That got me over a hump and the install progressed a few more steps.
3. But then it choked at modifying the web.config file in the web site's root directory. Since I can't change the permissions on a single file, I had to change the permissions on the whole root. Gulping a bit, I went ahead and did that.
4. The result was that when I tried to do the upgrade process again, I saw absolutely nothing...a blank web page. No DNN logo, no progress report, no errors. Nothing.
5. I didn't know what to do so I restored all the 4.8.4 files. Everything's back to the way it was...but now I don't know how to proceed.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI