DNN Install/Upgrade
In the past 2-3 weeks I have been working on upgrading the DotNetNuke Installations on both this website and the IowaComputerGurus website and finally I can say I'm done with the upgrades. These sites, although not that complex had a number of issues with the upgrades, some of which I have blogged about in the past, and then today a brand new oddity was discovered. After upgrading the site everything was functional, however the text editors were behaving very unusually. Clicking "Save" at times would not redirect you back to the page, but content would be saved. Other times it would redirect you back to the page, but your changes were not saved. I couldn't find any rhyme or reason behind it, so I started digging.
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Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, January 22, 2012
For those of you that are regular visitors to this site you most likely noticed a number of changes to the site over the past 24 hours, including a small amount of downtime. This was caused by changes surrounding the upgrade of this site to DotNetNuke version 6.1.2. Now, I have worked on a number of DotNetNuke upgrades over the years, and I lost count a few years back at about 300 upgrades. This site was by-far one of the hardest upgrades that I have ever completed and in this post I will share a bit around the growing pains that were experiences throughout the process.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, January 06, 2012
A while back I released a tool called Secure My Install that was designed to help people take existing DotNetNuke sites and change the way that they store passwords to use a more secure process. Many people have used that module successfully to convert their sites, however, I never took the time to share the few small steps that are needed to simply "secure" your site as soon as you set it up so that you can avoid all of the hassle in the beginning. In this post I'll walk through the simple process of changing your configuration to go from Encrypted Passwords to Hashed passwords and a bit of detail as to "why" you want to make the change.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, October 07, 2011
For just a little over a week there has been a lot of buzz in the .NET and DotNetNuke community around the POET security vulnerability that was identified within the Microsoft ASP.NET technology stack. For those of you unaware of the true details on this vulnerability I highly recommend you read the initial announcement from Scott Guthrie from Microsoft, as well as his Frequently Asked Questions post, and lastly his secondary followup posting, with a more detailed workaround. So why do I bring this up now? Well late last week DotNetNuke corporation released DotNetNuke 5.5.1 and in the materials that went out with that release they note that it includes a workaround fix for this vulnerability, I wanted to make sure that as always people have ALL information needed before they are doing upgrades.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 27, 2010
As more and more people start working with DotNetNuke, IIS7, and .NET 4.0 it is important to note a few important potential problem areas when it comes to running DotNetNuke on the 4.0 framework. Recently I took a DNN 5.4.4 installation and tried running it under .NET 4.0 and without modifications, it was a complete failure, in this blog posting I will show you what needs to change to allow DotNetNuke to work as expected.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
In past blog postings I have provided what has become a bit of a "Guide to Selecting a DotNetNuke Hosting Provider." As with previous years it is about that time where there have been enough changes in the market and to DotNetNuke in general that I thought it was necessary for a 2010-2011 version of this information. In this article I will talk though the thought process that I use when working with current and potential customers to select their hosting plan, environment and provider. This document has been updated based on current information, in addition, prior to going through the recommendations below I strongly recommend reading my article “Shared, Virtual Private Server, Dedicated of Cloud Hosting” to become familiar with the different levels of hosting and also to review my "DotNetNuke Performance Configuration Best Practices" document to ensure that your DNN hosting plan is up to date.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, July 26, 2010
After talking with a number of clients since last week, I thought it would be worthwhile to make a post here with a formal warning regarding upgrades to DotNetNuke 5.2. As announced at OpenForce US, DotNetNuke 5.2 contains the Telerik Controls for ASP.NET, which is a very good thing for DotNetNuke as a whole, however, it can cause massive problems for individuals that are already using the Telerik Controls as a site upgrade can end up rendering portions, or the entire site unusable, until DLL versions are restored. In this post I will give a bit of information regarding the scenarios that I have encountered and some guidance on how to protect yourself from upgrade issues.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Back in May of 2008 I wrote an article “Selecting a DotNetNuke Hosting Provider Revisited”. Well, being almost a year-and-a-half later I thought it would be good to provide a 2009-2010 follow-up to the article to update based on new information, updates to hosting plans/offerings, as well as DotNetNuke performance in general. In this article I will talk though the thought process that I use when working with current and potential customers to select their hosting plan, environment and provider. This document has been updated based on current information, in addition, prior to going through the recommendations below I strongly recommend reading my article “Shared, Virtual Private Server, Dedicated of Cloud Hosting” to become familiar with the different levels of hosting.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, October 30, 2009
About two months ago, I responded to a DotNetNuke question on StackOverflow.com with regard to automating the installation of modules within the installation. This is a question that I have seen many times, but with different business requirements and end desires, but the trend is the same, installing extensions one-by-one is an inefficient process, and with a heavily used site can cause performance issues that would impact regular traffic for an extended period of time. This is simply because there is a delay between each install, and with each install and update to the /bin directory the application recycles. Thankfully there is a method built into DotNetNuke that easily allows you to bulk install extensions, the rest of this article will show you how.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
DotNetNuke 4.9.2 was just released yesterday and 5.0.1 will be released in the very near future. For those looking for Installation and Upgrade guides, please reference the existing versions of the guides. As they are still 100% valid.
Installing 4.x Locally
Installing 4.x on a Remote Host
Upgrading to 4.x from 4.6.2 and later
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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