# 404 login error while upgrading CMS

**URL:** https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/404-login-error-while-upgrading-cms/9894
**Category:** Uncategorised Topics
**Created:** [May 3, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/404-login-error-while-upgrading-cms/9894 "2017-05-03T19:16:53Z")
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### Author: ![louloizides](https://community.xibo.org.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/eb8c5e/32.png) [@louloizides](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/louloizides)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/404-login-error-while-upgrading-cms/9894/1 "2017-05-03T19:16:53Z")

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I’m trying to upgrade my CMS from 1.7.8 to 1.8.1 manually (we’re on Win 7 and I can’t use a VM here… plus the clients aren’t connected to the web anyway so we can’t push upgrades). I’m running into an issue where the “login” page appears to be missing.

I took the following steps:

- Backed up the DB
- Backed up the existing IIS dir (I have everything in C:\inetpub\wwwroot)
- Copied the zip file contents to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\xibo
- Set the IIS root dir to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\xibo (I want xibo to be [http://server](http://server) and not [http://server/xibo](http://server/xibo))
- Copied the existing settings.php and web.config file back
- Set the IIS dir to %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot\xibo\web (not in the instructions, but if I didn’t add the \web then I just got a 404 error)
- Navigated to [http://server](http://server)

But I’m just getting this:

 ![](https://community.xibo.org.uk/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2b915a8dbc4e6e7aa37f7e3296c5a10d024d1952.png)

If anyone could help me find a resolution to this fast I’d appreciate it. Worst case I’ll roll back to the old CMS but I’d rather move forward on this… I have clients up all over that are waiting to connect to something.

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### Author: ![cslaughter](https://community.xibo.org.uk/user_avatar/community.xibo.org.uk/cslaughter/32/186_2.png) [@cslaughter](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/cslaughter)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 6:56am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/404-login-error-while-upgrading-cms/9894/2 "2017-05-04T06:56:07Z")

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You may try looking here and see if this helps:

> [@Trouble installing 1.8](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/trouble-installing-1-8/4928/11):
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> Try http://pathto/xibo/install/index.php/2 - and if that works you’ve got mod\_rewrite problems. If you are using IIS then the .htaccess file we provide won’t be suitable and you will need to set equivalent rules in your IIS config. Something like this would be a good start: \<configuration\> \<system.webServer\> \<rewrite\> \<rules\> \<rule name="xibo auth" enabled="true"\> \<match url="api/authorize/.\*" /\> \<action type="Rewrite" url="/api/authoriz…