Entries for September 2007

Upgrading to DotNetNuke 4.6.0 from 4.x 

This is my fourth revision DNN Upgrade guide.  This version of the document includes important updates for the upgrade process to DotNetNuke 4.6.  Many portions of this upgrade guide are the same as previous versions, however, there are some new items.  This is simply due to the LIMITED changes that have truly occured in the area of DotNetNuke upgrades.

This guide is geared towards performing an upgrade in-place directly to the server.  If you are on a hosted web server you will need to make modifications to the instructions to fit your access to the production environment.  Additionally I STRONGLY suggest attempting to perform an upgrade locally BEFORE you update a production hosted site to check all processes.

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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 17, 2007

Development and Production Systems with DotNetNuke 

Managing the development process using DotNetNuke as a development framework is something that many individuals ask about yet it is something that is not often discussed.  I thought I would take this time to discuss a few of the ins and outs od development with DotNetNuke and maintaining a development and production environment from my experience. Please remember that the following comments are my personal opinions and are no way affiliated or associated with the feelings of DotNetNuke Corporation.

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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 06, 2007

Installing DotNetNuke 4.5.5 on a Hosting Site 

In previous articles on this site I have provided tutorials for installing DotNetNuke to a local machine, however, I have never yet approached the topic of installing DotNetNuke to a remote web hosting provider.  I have been asked many times why and the answer is simple; installations to remote hosts are not really standardized as depending on the hosting providers environments the steps to install can differ greatly.  However, due to popular demand I have created this tutorial which will provide you the basic overview of how to perform a clean installation of DotNetNuke on a remote web hosting provider.  In the article I will try to point out the most common areas of difference between different hosting providers, I will also be providing specific examples regarding the use of the Plesk control panel which is what my hosting provider (3Essentials) uses.

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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 06, 2007

Free Video Tutorials Coming Monday! 

Due to propular request and due to the finding of CamStudio (a free screen recording software) I will start providing free DotNetNuke video tutorials on this site staring no later than Monday 9/10. The first tutorial that will be created is a FULL installation guide for a clean DNN 4.5.5 installation on Windows Vista! If you have requests for fut...

Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Video Tutorials? Demand? 

I have been toying with the idea of starting to offer video tutorials from my site to compliment my text based items. I would be looking at using a screen capture utility to capture the exact procedures needed to do each of the tasks with guided voice instruction and explaination. Overall they would be somewhat similar to others out there and I w...

Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Active Forums 3.7 Review 

As many of my regular readers have noticed I have recently migrated from the Core DNN Forum module to the ActiveForums module created by ActiveModules. This article is a full review of the new forum and my overall thoughts regarding the switch and the new features provided by the ActiveForums module.

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Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, September 02, 2007

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