Preparing for the Community Server 2008 Upgrade

I am in the process of preparing for the upgrade, the main question that I do have is. Is There any issue with upgrading the system using the upgrade tools where the database is stored on a remote site.

Also has any anybody found any issues upgrading hosted sites, primarily with the Orcsweb host. 

Mykre:

I am in the process of preparing for the upgrade, the main question that I do have is. Is There any issue with upgrading the system using the upgrade tools where the database is stored on a remote site.

  No issues, that's how it's meant to work.  As long as you have local access to the files, and access to the db server

Mykre:

Also has any anybody found any issues upgrading hosted sites, primarily with the Orcsweb host. 

I believe CS.com is hosted by Orcsweb Host

 Thanks.

Started to play with it today, brought a copy of the database, and web pages down from the host to my dev box.

Set up the database and pages to what I thought was correct, and nothing works. I have added the new URL to the sites list and set the site mappings and still nothing. I am getting an "Inernet Explorer can no not display this page error" and nothing else, not even getting any errors :(

I can get the normal html files that are in the directory i.e. the error page.

Any thoughts.

 Looks like I am getting a 301 error in the logs. :(

 Got it....

On my production site I have the url with www.sitename.com, and when backing it up I have moved to dev.sitename.com. I did add the site to the site tables and the mapping tables, but what I didn't do was change the communityserver.config file.

Inside the communityserver.comfig file there is a section that asked you if you would like to keep the www, remove it or ignore it. On the production site I asked it to require the www, but now that I have a dev site with it I needed to swap it to Ignore.

At least that is fixed and I can now go through the upgrade.