Between versions, Dynamicweb may make minor database changes or add new standard-templates and other files. Usually these updates are applied automatically, but occasionally they may fail – e.g. if the database user has the wrong permissions and due to other unforeseen reasons.
When this happens you may experience errors in backend and frontend – they can then often be solved by rerunning the updates.
In versions prior to Dynamicweb 9.14 the updates were applied by an update script. This script can be run in 2 ways:
From the backend:
- Login as an administrator user
- Go to Settings > System > System Information and scroll to the bottom
- Change the "updates.xml.aspx" field to 2000 - this means that all update scripts from that file/database version will be re-applied if not applied already
- Click Rerun updates
By changing the update file directly:
- On the server, find the folder /Files and the file Updates.xml or Updates.xml.aspx
- Open it in a text editor
- Change the version to 2000
- Run a IISRESET