Migrating your Sitefinity 3.7 project

If your project is running on Sitefinity 3.7, you can migrate it to Sitefinity’s latest version.

PREREQUISITES: Both your 3.7 and your new 4.x project must run on IIS.

The migration procedure consists of the following steps:

1. Set Sitefinity 3.7 for migration.
   Depending on your system, you setup for migration in one of the following ways:
   • Automatic setup
     This procedure is performed in Sitefinity Product Manager. Use the procedure, if the project manager has access to your 3.7 project web.config file.
   • Manual setup
     Use this procedure, if your Sitefinity Project Manager does not have access to your 3.7 project web.config file.
2. Copy any resources stored in the file system from the 3.7 website to your new Sitefinity 4.x website.
   We recommend that you keep the same folder structure. You must copy the following folders and files, if they exist:
   • Custom components like library assemblies, user controls and related files, etc.
   • Folder /App_Master
   • Folder /App_Themes
   • Images, documents or other files, which the 3.7 website links to
   • External .js files
   • CSS files linked to specific pages, which are not part of any theme, etc.
3. On the Sitefinity 4.x Dashboard, click Migrate your site from Sitefinity 3.7 to the newest version link.
   Sitefinity Migration page appears.
4. Enter the URL of your Sitefinity 3.7 Standard edition project, select the content you want to migrate, and click Begin Migration.

NOTE: The original URLs of items and pages remain the same. If you want the system to generate new URLs and add the original .aspx URSs as additional URLs for all items and pages, in the main menu, click Administration » Settings » Advanced » MigrationModule and in field OriginalUrlsAreMigratedAsAdditional, enter TRUE.