Hi Joe and all!

I manage a mojoportal site for my karate club, www.haningebudoklubb.se.
It currently runs on a rather old version of mojoPortal. This is what system information shows.

​mojoPortal Version: 2.3.5.4 MSSQL
Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
ASP.NET Version: v4.0.30319 Running in Full Trust

I have not for several reasons been able to do incremental upgrades and there haven't been a need for it since it works so great.

It is now time to upgrade the site to the latest and greatest version. I plan to add a member only section with features such as forums, a webshop, member lists and so on and want to build that on the newest version with add-ons as membership pro, invoice pro etc.

I am afraid that there will be some difficult issues since it is such a big jump in version.

My plan was first to build a new clean site in parallell and then recreate and copy paste all content from the old site, but the site has about 120 pages and 4 blogs and lots of data in image galleries and so on, so I will do an upgrade instead. Image galleries are of several types and versions, which I do not know if they are still supported. For example: This, this and this.

I understand that there might be difficulties with the skin, so I will craft a completely new skin from scratch using 2.4.0.0 and artisteer, so that is not an issue.

The plan is to do a copy of the complete file structure and the database and run that site under a different host header and do the upgrade on that on and when finished and everything works I will switch to the new site.

There are no self-developed modules or changed code and it is plain vanilla mojoPortal, but a lot of 301-redirections which I did in the beginning to keep old urls of the older version of the site that was built on another platform. Also a lot of orphan content that are not linked to any pages and lots of obsolete files in the file structure, but I plan to clean this up after the upgrade.

Are there any issues that I need to be aware of? Any compatibility issues regarding encryption or so?

Grateful for some input before I start upgrading.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody!

BR
/Mats

Thanks Joe.

It sounds assuring, but I finally decided to build a completely new website and re-create all pages and copy/paste the content over from the old site instead. It is fairly quick and straightforward and I can tweak the new site  in my own pace on my local machine and then just upload the database and files to the server and switch when I am finished.

There were such a mess of obsolete files and different folder names like "media" and numerous version folders for editors and so on, so this will make it much cleaner and I am almost done already.

Thanks anyway.
 

/Mats