As some of you noticed my blog either looked different for at some point recently or for a while it was not even available and it was all a terrible mess. As you might know I am running this on Community Server 2007 (CS 2007); CS 2008 was released some time back I thought maybe it is about time that I upgrade to that. Now you would think that it should be a painless process – boy how wrong one can be!

After weeks of trying (whenever I could take out time from a very hectic work schedule) I just could not get it to work. Even though the upgrade was “supposedly” successful (as shown by the screen shot below) nothing was working. After some digging it seems the Themes were the main culprit; Telligent has completely re-worked the theme engine from CS 2007 to CS 2008 and in the process anything (including the Default theme in CS 2007) breaks.

I have to admit I am not loving CS anymore. At one point, the idea of running a .NET based blogging service (.dotText if anyone remembers) was a cool idea. The geek in me could customize it to my hearts content. But since the release of CS and the whole commercialisation of it; the product just seems to have gone off on a tangent and more geared to the corporate world and they don’t seem to be interested in individuals like me. Now, don’t get me wrong I am not against commercialisation (hey we all need to pay our bills), I am all for the fact that this this scales up very well and someone like Avanade would probably use this for their “blogging engine” (actually being the geeks that we are, we might end up building one in our spare time).

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But for me it now has lost it magic! So, I am interested in knowing what other options are there if any? I would like it to be open source and I would like to host it on my own domain. Any ideas?

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CS 2008 Upgrade1

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Here is one of the many errors that I was getting:

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Error:

25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Updating posts for reindexing and search  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Upgrading role icons  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Moved 0 of 1 role icons into centralized storage  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Upgrading rank icons  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Moved 0 of 0 rank icons into centralized storage  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Upgrading user avatars  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Moved 0 of 0 avatars into centralized storage  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- cs\_UserAvatar table truncated  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- Upgrading user files  
25/07/2008 17:05:13 -- EXCEPTION: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\\AltooFaltoo\\temp\\blogbackup\\weblog\\filestorage'.  
   at System.IO.\_\_Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)  
   at System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames(String path, String userPathOriginal, String searchPattern, Boolean includeFiles, Boolean includeDirs, SearchOption searchOption)  
   at System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)  
   at System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path)  
   at CommunityServer.Upgrader.FileUpgrader.UpgradeUserFiles()  
   at CommunityServer.Upgrader.Part4.MoveFilesToCfs()