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When DotNetNuke released version 4.5, we decided that the next version of Active Forums would only support DotNetNuke 4.5 and higher. Why? Because it's the best release we have seen yet and offers some of the latest technology functions that we can leverage in our products. If you haven't upgraded yet, why not?

What I find really amazing is that we have had a handful of new customers purchase Active Forums 3.7 only to find out that they are stuck on an older version of DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke 3.x hasn't seen a release since 11/30/2006 and that was marked as the final release for ASP.NET 1.1.

Let's look at some reasons you could be stuck on an older version and how to avoid them.
 

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Steps I took for upgrading ( using webhost4life):

1. Make a back up of db;

2. Make a copy of the entire website folder and upload the upload the DotNetNuke_4.4.1_Upgrade files by doing the followings:

   a) Create a new root folder on webhost4life;

   b) Zip the current working web folder (the folder which has the entire dnn installation);

   c) Unzip the zipped folder into the newly created root folder;

   d) Upload the dnn 4.4.1 upgrade files ("DotNetNuke_4.4.1_Upgrade", unzipped) to the server's newly created folder.

3. Point the site directory to the newly created folder.

That's it. This way you don't need to change any keys or anything on web.config file. And if there is anything goes wrong, you can change the path to the old folder immediately.

Note:

Remove all the unnecessary modules before the process. Make sure module versions would work with the new dnn installation.

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