Upgrading Drupal

Dear forum members,

I installed Drupal (11.3.9) using the following line:
  composer create-project drupal/recommended-project my_site_name.

When I try to update Drupal to 11.3.10 using the following line:
  composer update "drupal/core-*" --with-all-dependencies,

I get the following message:
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

My site is in Drupal 11.3.10, and I was notified by the system that there are available updates. I ran "composer upgrade" as usual and my site was upgraded to Drupal 11.4.x-dev.

My composer.json has the following relevant bits:

"minimum-stability": "dev",      (I use some modules with "dev" versions)

"prefer-stable": true,

and

"drupal/core-recommended": "^11",

"drupal/core-composer-scaffold": "^11",

"drupal/core-project-message": "^11",

and also

"drupal/core-dev": "^11

Why is "prefer-stable":true not being respected? 

I'm trying to update it to version 11.3.10 and it gives me an error:

Problem 1

    - Root composer.json requires drupal/core-recommended 11.3.7 -> satisfiable by drupal/core-recommended[11.3.7].

Hello,

I'm just trying to upgrade from D9, latest version, to D10, latest version. I followed the steps in this document and succeeded until #4.4, which means that D10 is installed and 'composer install' is executed, everything successfully without any errors. But now, when I visit my site, I get an HTTP error 500, internal server error. That means also that I cannot run database updates.

so I am using Drupal CMS 2.0 on a production server. I recently went to install a module, only for it to screw up my website by throwing out an 403 error forbidden message, even when logging in from a different device. I did get permissions fixed, but now my json lock file is preventing anything from being upgraded. i am modifying the Mercury theme for the site.

I don't have ssh access so everything has to be done through a web interface, whether on Drupal or my web hosting provider site.

I tried upgrading 9.4.5 to 11.3.3 directly by FTP and update.php and got many errors.

I read some where I would need to first upgrade to the latest V9 then to the latest V10 and then to 11.3.3 is that correct?Or is there a faster way?

then....

Since the very old modules trew many errors should I first deactivate all modules, then upgrade Drupal and afterwards update all modules?

Is that the correct way?