solvedahlgren wrote
1) Will the Installer work on a hosted server?
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Right now only if you have physical acces to the hosted server (so probably not).
There is an option to upload the files using FTP, but that has not been tested very well (only on my own server).
I am not sure what more options there should be to upload the files to a hosted server? There are so many possibility if you are talking about hosted servers.
solvedahlgren wrote
2) Can I use the Installer to upgrade from a previous version of DNN (still running 4.02) or is it just for fresh installs?
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You should be able to upgrade a previous version of DNN, however the file structure is a little bit different.
(The files get installed in the same structure as the source package, eg. Inetpub/DotNetNuke/Website (where InetPub/DotNetNuke is selected in the installer), so if you want to overwrite files in the old version that are now in InetPub/DotNetNuke you would first have to move all the files to a new directory Website and change the location in IIS (home directory) to InetPub/DotNetNuke/Website.
The installer will then take care of backing up you existing web.config (and copy the security keys from it).
It will not read the existing setiings for the database yet, so you will have to set them yourself for now in the installer (also remember to set the same object qualifier of you used one in the previous version of DotNetNuke.
I would definitely backup your old version of the files and the database first !!!