Who is this article for?

IT Personnel planning an upgrade to Please Review 7.

IT access is required.

Important: This article is part of a series of articles covering the upgrade process. Please visit How to Perform a Please Review 7 Upgrade to view the entire process.

The final part of the upgrade is to update the web.config file. The steps to do this will depend on whether or not you have made any changes or customisations to this file.

Note: If you are not sure if any customisations have been made then you can compare the new file with the old one to review any differences.

This article outlines the steps to upgrade the web.config file and is split into the following sections:

1. Customisations
2. No Customisations
3. Further Reading

1. Customisations

1. Backup your existing web.config file by saving a copy to a safe location.
2. Replace the web.config in the Please Review directory with the new Web.Config.Template file.
3. Edit this file and re-implement any customisations.
4. Save the file.
5. Rename the file to web.config.

2. No Customisations

If you have made no changes to your current Web.Config file you can simply replace it with the new Web.Config.Template file.

To do this:

1. Backup your existing web.config file by saving a copy to a safe location.
2. Replace the web.config in the Please Review directory with the new Web.Config.Template file.
3. Rename the file to web.config.

What Next?

With the minimum requirements in place you are now ready to proceed. Please see How to Backup an Existing Please Review Installation for the next steps or How to Perform a Please Review 7 Upgrade to review the whole process.

3. Further Reading