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Hello -

I'm moving a Drupal site under development to a new server account. While doing this I'd like to install the latest 3.x version of Civi. On the old server we had installed Civi 2.2.6.  Will it work if I just install the latest Civi fresh, and then import the database from the old site?

Thanks in advance-
m.e.

I've got the same issues. I had outdated Drupal and outdated CiviCRM. I'm wanting to move servers and upgrade. We had all our civi contacts imported using a csv file. No contacts have user profiles yet on drupal. I've tried migrating servers, then upgrading but had database problems. Our drupal site css was hacked and looked terrible after that. We had no other modules. We had problems with CiviCRM.

I thought it was best to do a new install of Drupal 6.15 and CiviCRM 3.0.3 on the new server (used as a development site for the time being till I repoint the name servers) so that I wasn't dealing with the hacks from the previous developer. I was planning on recreating the drupal content, and figured I could recreate the civiCRM profiles (we have no events right now), paypal processor, and google map, then importing the contacts again.  Am I doing this backwards? Is there an easier way? And in the end, how can I get all these contacts (~150) to create user accounts without letting the whole world sign up for users.

Many thanks to the programming wizards that put together CiviCRM. It's sweet and we're super excited to get up and running.

Peace,
Teleman