Migration from v3.7 SP4 to v5.4 - Migration Errors - Sitefinity - Upgrading Sitefinity

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Posted by Community Admin on 19-Apr-2013 00:00

I have put in a support ticket w/ Telerik, but hopefully one of you kind folks can assist me.

From Ticket:

There are a couple of problems that I ran into when attempting to migrate from v3.7 SP4 to v5.4. I followed the migration documentation, found here,

www.sitefinity.com/.../migrating-your-sitefinity-3-7-project

Let me first describe what I have done

1) Both the new and old site are on separate app pools in IIS running .net 4
2) The "MigrationService.svc" and the (2) Dll's are in the old site
3) The new DB is set up already in SQL 2008
4) I can login into the new site's admin panel
5) I have re-added the "Telerik.Cms.Engine.dll" with the correct version, 3.7.2136.2 into the old site's bin folder
6) I have verified the the login information is correct (for old and new site)
7) I have verified that both the old and new site are running .net 4

When I tried to do the "automated" migration, through the Project Manager, I first had to install the v5.4 (another team member had created the project on his machine - we use TFS), the error given was this:

"Installation package for the build version of the specified SP3.7 project is missing"

I rebuilt the old site, and still the same error message.

Therefore, I went the manual route, which is taking the files out of the zip file and putting them into the old site.

I must note (2) things here.
1) The old site WAS running .net 3.5, but I following the Telerik migration documentation, basically changing the app pool to run under .net 4, and changing the build framework on the project. I am running IIS 8.0
2) The team member that created the new project deleted the "Module3.7_SP4_NET40" file inside the new site. So what I did was go under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\Sitefinity 5.4\_EmptyProject
and used that one

Inside the NEW site's migration tool, I put in the URL for the old site, and the username/pw. It says "Connection to 3.7 project has failed".

If I go to "local.OLDSITE.com/migrationservice.svc", I get this error message: (Capture1.png)

If I go to my event viewer, I get this: (Capture2.png)

This is why I re-added the "Telerik.Cms.Engine.dll" to the old site and rebuilt, but to no avail.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

- Rob Scott

Posted by Community Admin on 22-Apr-2013 00:00

Hi Rob,

We have discussed the topic in the support thread, but if you wish you can share the information from the ticket with the community.

Greetings,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

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