you can do a test upgrade on your local machine, but you should upgrade your production server in place. have a look into the installation manual (included into the documentation pack) for further reference.
To upgrade your production site, follow this steps:
- disable external access to your portal
- backup your site and database
- ensure, the backup succeeded
- re-install the starter kit, overwriting the existing
- open your sie in VS2005 should update your site
- rename your web.config into bak.config
- copy release.config to web.config
- copy all specific items from bak.config into web.config:
- encryption keys
- database connection string
- object qualifier (if adopted)
- any other custom modifications
- hit your site, upgrade of database and re-installation of modules shall take place
- follow the link at the bottom of the page to start your portal
- if everything went well, enable external access
- if anything went wrong, shout "***" and restore your backup
Sebastian Leupold
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