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Persona 500 Error on Upgrade to 9.5 Started By Steve Johnson After upgrading from 9.2.2 to 9.5.0 my site settings and page settings and pages are not working in Admin in the Persona Bar. After digging I see that it is throwing Server 500 errors when I try and access these functions. For example https://www.xxxxxx.com/en...eSettings/GetPortals https://www.xxxxxx.com/fr...=0&cultureCode=fr-FR https://www.xxxxxx.com/AP...=0&cultureCode=en-GB On a correctly working site in 9.5 when logged in with an authenticated cookie you would get a JS...	2	2796	1	4/28/2020 8:38 AM by Steve Johnson
Alternate methods to upgrading a site Started By Michael Hamlett there are so many errors and pitfalls trying to upgrade a DNN site. is there any way to create a totally new site, then export/import pages and modules from the old site to the new site. ive been dealing with DNN for 15 years and this is always difficult. my current site is very bare bones and going from 9.1.1 to 9.3.2 before going to 9.5 uses 4 DNNSharp modules and gravity skin. fails everytime at 68 persona bar error. just trying to see if an alternate method of upgrading h...	2	2130	1	5/9/2020 2:45 PM by Michael Hamlett
After upgrading to dnn 9.6.1, started getting issue "bootstrap's javascript requires jquery version 1.9.1 or higher but lower than 3" Started By Maya Trivedi Hi All, I have upgrade my DNN site from 8.0.1 to 9.6.1 version and it was successful. After the upgrade I was getting error as 'bootstrap's javascript requires jquery version 1.9.1 or higher but lower than 3' and because of this error the JQuery was not running and so UI controls. To resolved above error, I replaced the upgraded Jquery files with older ones in all the 3 folders (JQuery, Jquery Migrate and Jquery UI) under '~/Resources/Libraries'. After that it started working withut showni...	8	4792	2	6/25/2020 6:39 AM by Maya Trivedi
CKEditor image upload not working with DNNGo_xBlog project Started By Nikhil91 Hello everyone, We recently migrated our website to DNN 9.2.2 . There were many bugs which our team was resolve most of them. Currently, the issue we are facing is CKeditor(4.5.0) image upload doesn't work. Also, I don't see any error in the console log or the admin log. It works as expected on the HomePage But when I go to a page which is from DNNGo_xBlog, it doesn't work. I was also not able to see the upload tab as well but I added the following lines to config.js to make it visible...	2	2109	1	6/26/2020 2:08 PM by Nikhil91
Noob Upgrade from 9.0.2 to latest Started By stevenoel Hi, So I have a webserver that I haven't touched in a couple years and I'd like to get it current. It's on v. 09.02.00 (366) (Windows server 2012). I downloaded 9.4.1_upgrade.zip and failed miserably so I've rolled it back. Looking for hints or someone who's more up to date on this than I am... do I need to do any pre-requisites or upgrade the DB ahead of time I tried to do an in-place upgrade like I have in the past - should I have done a side-by-side instead Thanks, Steve	3	2308	1	6/22/2020 10:25 PM by stevenoel
DNN Upgrade or Install Started By isrna Hi, I am trying to upgrade DNN to 9.6.1 from 4.8.3. Completed prerequisites like .net version etc. Now there is an upgrade path I followed and the upgrade was a success but, Our project is setup in such a way, there are 20 different projects under the root. They don't know what DNN is, we have an installer which takes the 4.8.3 install files from root along with some of our project files and creates a website folder under those 20 projects which now basically has 4.8.3 install files. Then ...	1	2276	1	6/16/2020 10:44 AM by isrna
DNN Upgrade 9.6.1 Started By isrna Hi, I have upgraded my website to 9.6.1 from 4.8.3 following the upgrade path. The upgrade was a success but then when I run the installresources command on my websites I get a 'object reference not set to an instance of an object', when I checked the log files I found these : 2020-06-15 09:56:14,325 [][ERROR] DotNetNuke.ComponentModel.ProviderInstaller - System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not load provider DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataPro...	2	2355	0	6/15/2020 10:18 AM by isrna
PersonaBarMenu Started By Johnhols After my upgrade from DNN 8 to 9.6, i had a problem with the persona bar not displaying the Pages option for the Administrator Role, on investigating the database i found that there was a missing record in PersonaBarMenuPermission for the Pages menuid. I manually inserted a row and now the Pages option is displayed. My query is i have extra records in the PersonaBarMenu (i created a new install of dnn to compare), the additional records have an identifier like 'Link_0-232' , ModuleName LinkMe...	3	2602	0	6/16/2020 4:27 AM by Johnhols
html hander Started By Johnhols I've just upgraded to 9.6 from DNN 08.00.04 (226) , i just have one problem remaining, which is we have a number of old html (*.html) pages which have server side include statement, after updating they are no longer being processed like an asp page would, so the include statements i.e. are not firing and we just get a basic html page. Any ideas of what can be done to resolve this	2	2078	0	6/15/2020 5:50 AM by Johnhols
Upgrade issue from 07.00.06 to 07.04.02 -> Value can't be null Started By Deleted User I got the below issue when i start upgrade from 07.00.06 to 07.04.02. can you anyone suggest me to resolve this Logs : Current Assembly Version: 07.04.02 Current Database Version: 07.00.06 Upgrade Status Report 00:00:00.043 - Upgrading to Version: 07.04.02 00:00:00.091 - Executing Script:07.01.00.SqlDataProvider Success 00:00:06.596 - Executing Script:07.01.01.SqlDataProvider Success 00:00:06.831 - Executing Script:07.01.02.SqlDataProvider Success 00:00:07.290 - ...	2	1935	2	5/28/2020 3:34 PM by Deleted User

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