Dnn version upgrade Methods

3. x-4.x

For dnn 3.x upgrade to dnn 4.X, refer to this article.Article: Upgrade dotnetnuke from dnn 3.x to 4.x

4.6.2-

For the 4.x version, for the upgrade before dnn 4.6.2, refer to my previous article: dotnetnuke (dnn) Upgrade Strategy (dnn 4.3.7 to dnn 4.6.0)

4.6.2 +

For dnn 4.6.2 and later versions, the upgrade is easy. After backing up your website (database and website files), you can directly overwrite the site files with the upgrade package, and then you can automatically upgrade it. Let's take a look at Michael Washington's blog about this.

You may think that the Web. config file does not need to be worry about, and the upgrade will be overwritten directly? Yes, this is a new feature after dnn 4.6.Xmlmerge class, used to handle xml configuration file upgrades. For details, refer:Charles's detailed explanation of XML merge