A question. Since it is best to first copy the site to another server and perform the upgrade here. Will Umbraco 2.1 run on a newer version of IIS and the .net framework?
Download the site to a local machine with the right IIS and MSSQL (like the server you want it on after)
upgrade to Umbraco 3.0.6 and check everything is working
Upgrade to 4.0.3 and check if everything is working
Here I would do some updates to the site, implement some of the cool things in 4.0.3
This shouldn't be a long process but you might run into some problems, there have been some people complaining over not being able to login in after upgrading etc.
I used umbraco2.1 3 years ago. We are currently 3-4 versions behind. As I understand we cannot convert our website from Umbraco2.1 to Umbraco4.x directly. We are planning to convert it from 2.1 to 3.0.6.
Since i am completely out of touch with umbraco, Could you please help me how to do this migration step by step.
IS there any link i can use for this Migration. We currently host goDaddy Shared plan as our Hosting provider.
Umbraco upgrade from 2.1 to 4
Hi,
We have a Umbraco 2.1 site that we would love to upgrade to Umbraco 4.
Can you point us in the right direction for best practicses and ways to do this?
Hello Henning!
You first need to upgrade to 3.0.6 and from there to 4.
There is a blog from Umbraco about it here http://umbraco.org/blog/2009/1/27/can-you-upgrade-your-site-to-umbraco-4
Regards,
Fredrik
A question. Since it is best to first copy the site to another server and perform the upgrade here. Will Umbraco 2.1 run on a newer version of IIS and the .net framework?
Also, how long do you think it will take to do this? Any estimates will help.
How big is the site? I would guess on it depends on how custom your 2.1 site is.
I could imagine that some things would be better to "redo" in a v4 installation, fx masterpages etc.
No special scripts only what can be done in umbraco 2.1. It is a 3 language site with a number of various content pages.
Well, I would do this:
Download the site to a local machine with the right IIS and MSSQL (like the server you want it on after)
upgrade to Umbraco 3.0.6 and check everything is working
Upgrade to 4.0.3 and check if everything is working
Here I would do some updates to the site, implement some of the cool things in 4.0.3
This shouldn't be a long process but you might run into some problems, there have been some people complaining over not being able to login in after upgrading etc.
Would it be realistic to do this in 12-18 hours?
Yes definately - how experienced are you with Umbraco 2,3 and 4?
And again if you run into odd problems its always a time killer - but i think you are well covered with about 10-15 hours.
Not to much. We hope to use it more and more.
Okay :-), well go for it and ask here for help if u need it - also a good please to get help is at #umbraco at Twitter :)
Hello
I used umbraco2.1 3 years ago. We are currently 3-4 versions behind. As I understand we cannot convert our website from Umbraco2.1 to Umbraco4.x directly. We are planning to convert it from 2.1 to 3.0.6.
Since i am completely out of touch with umbraco, Could you please help me how to do this migration step by step.
IS there any link i can use for this Migration. We currently host goDaddy Shared plan as our Hosting provider.
You help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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