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Persona 500 Error on Upgrade to 9.5

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Steve Johnson
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4/28/2020 8:38 AM

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

On a correctly working site in 9.5 when logged in with an authenticated cookie you would get a JSON set of data returned but I get an empty XML file with an error returned.

An error has occurred.

When I access the users it all works fine. This site has gone through several upgrade from about Ver 7 and is a multi-language site. I am thinking it maybe some historic setting in portalsettings or portal aliases that is causing the issue but am not sure.

Any guidance would really help.

 

 

Steve Johnson
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4/30/2020 8:46 AM

Well, I'm pleased to announce I have found the issue.
I started to think it was something to do with newtonsoft.json.dll as this I believe is used to create the JSON data. Inside web.config I found lots of NewtonSoft bindings with Version 10 and also Version 8 which was coming from DNNSharp Action Forms V5.0.1. I tried forever to remove the NewtonSoft 8 entry in the web.config and in a subfolder of the BIN directory but everytime I deleted them they reappeared on starting the website. I eventually tracked it down to a backup folder in the desktopmdules for DNNSharp Action Form which would recreated the entry in web.config and also copy the files back into the BIN subfolder.

So I uninstalled DNNSharp Action Form and now everyhing is working fine again. I know DNNSharp have now released a version which works with DNN 9.5 so might now reinstall.

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7/17/2020 12:46 PM

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