Upgrading Umbraco Version 7.4.3 to version 7.6.14 (and beyond), please help
Hi everyone,
I've been tasked with updating our companies site from 7.4.3 to the latest version of 9.
I've spent many, many hours trying this. I've been following step by step guides and can't even get past the first step of updating to 7.6.14.
I managed to get the website to run locally and show the Umbraco update page, but when I try to update it immediately cancels out.
I saw other people having this problem but couldn't find an actual solution.
I also tried uploading to dev server and running it from there, but the website is a big mess of stuff and the NuGet umbraco update moves so much stuff around I'm not sure what I actually need to replace on the dev folder.
Does anybody know what files I need to keep for this to work?
Am I better off starting with a fresh version of Umbraco 9.2 and remaking 8 years of web content from scratch?
Please... save me :S
I do believe that you'd be better of starting from scratch. The minor upgrades that you are doing right now are not nearly the biggest issue.
Upgrading from 7 to 8 is a big step and from 8 to 9 an even larger step since Umbraco 9 uses .NET Core instead of Framework.
For your current issue though:
I see that you haven't shown the entire log, could there be a part of that log that says something that could indicate a missing table or missing permissions?
It happens quite a lot that during a database migration a table needs to be added/altered and the user provided in the connection string doesn't have DB_OWNER rights. I believe that after a while you get the error that you mentioned but I can't confirm without a stack trace.
Once again, it would be better to tell your colleagues that you'll need to start from scratch. Good luck.
Upgrading Umbraco Version 7.4.3 to version 7.6.14 (and beyond), please help
Hi everyone, I've been tasked with updating our companies site from 7.4.3 to the latest version of 9. I've spent many, many hours trying this. I've been following step by step guides and can't even get past the first step of updating to 7.6.14. I managed to get the website to run locally and show the Umbraco update page, but when I try to update it immediately cancels out.
(the log has this message:
_shutDownMessage=CONFIG change HostingEnvironment initiated shutdown HostingEnvironment caused shutdown )
I saw other people having this problem but couldn't find an actual solution. I also tried uploading to dev server and running it from there, but the website is a big mess of stuff and the NuGet umbraco update moves so much stuff around I'm not sure what I actually need to replace on the dev folder. Does anybody know what files I need to keep for this to work?
Am I better off starting with a fresh version of Umbraco 9.2 and remaking 8 years of web content from scratch? Please... save me :S
Hi Darren,
I do believe that you'd be better of starting from scratch. The minor upgrades that you are doing right now are not nearly the biggest issue.
Upgrading from 7 to 8 is a big step and from 8 to 9 an even larger step since Umbraco 9 uses .NET Core instead of Framework.
For your current issue though: I see that you haven't shown the entire log, could there be a part of that log that says something that could indicate a missing table or missing permissions?
It happens quite a lot that during a database migration a table needs to be added/altered and the user provided in the connection string doesn't have DB_OWNER rights. I believe that after a while you get the error that you mentioned but I can't confirm without a stack trace.
Once again, it would be better to tell your colleagues that you'll need to start from scratch. Good luck.
The DB owner connection string sounds like the right kind of thing, how do I find out what the connection string for that is?
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