sorry, I wrote the wrong upgrade attempt above:
I have already tried upgrading 5.1 to 5.04.04 above - which failed.
(we have no 3rd party modules which are referenced in web.config either)
I have rolled back all dnn files and databse to yesterday and tried (and failed) again with the 5.04.04 version.
Here's a breakdown of the upgrade failure.
* Overwritten the release.config with my connection string
Get this error:
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
* If I use my original web.config, nothing happens until I navigate to this path install.aspx?mode=upgrade, and then I finally get the upgrade status screen, but fails on several things:
Upgrading DotNetNuke
Current Assembly Version: 05.04.04
Current Database Version: 05.01.01
Upgrade Status Report
00:02:01.066 - Upgrading to Version: 05.04.04
00:02:01.113 - Executing Script: 05.01.02.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.01.02.log.resources for more information)
00:02:05.457 - Executing Script: 05.01.03.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.01.03.log.resources for more information)
00:02:07.566 - Executing Script: 05.01.04.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.01.04.log.resources for more information)
00:02:09.629 - Executing Script: 05.02.00.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.02.00.log.resources for more information)
00:02:12.098 - Executing Script: 05.02.01.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.02.01.log.resources for more information)
00:02:13.223 - Executing Script: 05.02.02.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.02.02.log.resources for more information)
00:02:14.192 - Executing Script: 05.02.03.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.02.03.log.resources for more information)
00:02:16.114 - Executing Script: 05.03.00.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.03.00.log.resources for more information)
00:02:18.614 - Executing Script: 05.03.01.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.03.01.log.resources for more information)
00:02:19.833 - Executing Script: 05.04.00.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.04.00.log.resources for more information)
00:02:21.161 - Executing Script: 05.04.01.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.04.01.log.resources for more information)
00:02:22.192 - Executing Script: 05.04.02.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.04.02.log.resources for more information)
00:02:23.598 - Executing Script: 05.04.03.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.04.03.log.resources for more information)
00:02:26.067 - Executing Script: 05.04.04.SqlDataProvider Error! (see 05.04.04.log.resources for more information)
00:02:27.177 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.01.02 Success
00:02:27.177 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.01.03 Success
00:02:28.677 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.01.04 Success
00:02:28.677 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.02.00 Success
00:02:32.380 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.02.01 Success
00:02:32.396 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.02.02 Success
00:02:32.396 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.02.03 Success
00:02:32.396 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.03.00 Success
00:02:36.255 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.03.01 Success
00:02:36.255 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.04.00 Success
00:02:37.068 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.04.01 Success
00:02:37.068 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.04.02 Success
00:02:37.068 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.04.03 Success
00:02:37.099 - Executing Application Upgrades: 05.04.04 Success
00:02:37.099 - Cleaning Up Files: 05.01.02 Success
00:02:37.099 - Cleaning Up Files: 05.01.03 Success
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dont know what else to try.