First: I did a backup of both the DB and folder structure first.
That out of the way, I downloaded the Upgrade package for 4.3.7. My site was at version 4.0.2. I extracted the files, and allowed it to overwrite anything it wanted.
Then I renamed release.config to web.config, and opened my backup of web.config- copied over everything in the <connectionStrings> and <appSettings> tags.
I went to my site, clicked the link to preform the upgrade, and it looked like everything went smoothly. No errors.
But--- I can't login. Tells me I have an invalid username or password (using host username) I can't email myself the info, and I know it's correct because I use RoboForm. It worked 20 minutes ago.
Tried to use my "user account" and that also did not work. I was able to register a new account, but of course can't give that user admin rights, or especially host rights.
As a last resort, I stopped the web instance in ISS, killed at DB connections, and restored both my DB and folder structure to how it was the other day. Now when I try to login, it just keeps goes back to page I was viewing. Does not give any errors, and does not load any of the admin features.
I would like to either get it back to where it was, or to the upgrade.
Running on Win 2k3, SP1
IIS V 6.0
MS SQL 2005
SQLExecMS V2.6 as a DB Tool
Was on DNN 4.0.2, trying to go to DNN 4.3.7
Feel free to let me know if you need further info.