Can't login to backend after upgrade from 4.1 to 7.1

Posted by Community Admin on 03-Aug-2018 19:02

Can't login to backend after upgrade from 4.1 to 7.1

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Posted by Community Admin on 05-Aug-2014 00:00

After completing the upgrade from 4.1 to 7.1 using the steps provided here (www.sitefinity.com/.../upgrade), the frontend of my site loads just fine, but when attempting to access the login portal for the backend (http://localhost/sitefinity), I receive the error "Value cannot be null.  Parameter name: pageDataNode".

I merged my web.config with the one in the 7.1 _EmptyProject folder, and I also tried outright replacing my web.config with one from a new project created in project manager.  The same error occurred either way.

Any ideas as to why this is occurring and how I can fix it?

Posted by Community Admin on 07-Aug-2014 00:00

I discovered the reason the backend login wasn't working was due to some failed upgrade steps that showed in tUpgradeTrace.log.  Here was the main one:  

Message: FAILED : SiteInitializer: Upgrade to 1600 (method: UpgradeBackendPages_AddHelpAndResourcesPage) - Invalid root node configured for pages. No root node with the name of "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000".

I took a guess that the multisite configuration upgrade and the claims authentication upgrade were somehow not being performed in the proper order.  To get around this, I did a second upgrade from 4.1 to 7.1, but before running it I copied the sf_sites table from the first upgrade into the DB.  I also copied the ProjectConfig.Config data from the first upgrade into the second (before running the upgrade)...this way, the root node configuration was already present.

I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but all of my upgrades succeeded and I can now log in to the backend.

Posted by Community Admin on 08-Aug-2014 00:00

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the shared solution.

We will highly appropriate if you could open a support ticket and provide us with your project in order to test it and improve our upgrade procedure.

Regards,
Svetoslav Manchev
Telerik

 
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