DasBlog 2.3 is out! Upgrading took longer than it should have...probably because I did a bad job of separating the application from my SharePoint migration customizations last year. But that’s been fixed, and upgrading from my custom build of 2.1+ to 2.3 went pretty smoothly.

In case I accidentally delete the files I saved these changes off into (again), here are my customizations:

• ~/web.config (I actually just copied & reused my existing web.config file, but this is the big change*):

  <system.webServer>
    ...
    <security>
      <requestFiltering>
        <hiddenSegments applyToWebDAV="true">
          <add segment="siteConfig" />
        </hiddenSegments>
      </requestFiltering>
    </security>
    ...
  </system.webServer>

• ~/siteConfig/site.config (these are in addition to the regular ones that have to be performed, like site title, notification address, root url, etc.):

  <!-- CUSTOMIZATIONS: -->
    <DisplayTimeZoneIndex>90</DisplayTimeZoneIndex>
    <AdjustDisplayTimeZone>false</AdjustDisplayTimeZone>
    <ContentDir>~/App_Data/content/</ContentDir>
    <LogDir>~/App_Data/logs/</LogDir>
    <BinariesDir>~/attachments/</BinariesDir>
    <ProfilesDir>~/App_Data/profiles/</ProfilesDir>
    <SmtpServer>localhost</SmtpServer>
    <EnableSmtpAuthentication>false</EnableSmtpAuthentication>
    <CommentsRequireApproval>true</CommentsRequireApproval>
  <!-- END OF CUSTOMIZATIONS—>

Other customizations:

• Backup from old installation and restore to new install:
  • ~/siteConfig/blogroll.opml
  • ~/siteConfig/navigatorLinks.xml
  • ~/siteConfig/siteSecurity.config
  • ~/App_Data
  • ~/attachments
• Change ACL on ~/siteConfig to grant NETWORK SERVICE modify access (ACL's on App_Data and attachments should be retained when backed up & restored; if not, grant this access to those directories too)

* I run dasBlog on IIS7, so my web.config file is actually quite a bit different than the one that ships with dasBlog. But those differences (other than the one highlighted above) were created by migrating the existing config file.

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