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I've recently upgraded to drupal 7 and civicrm 4. The installation process went fine, and the site is working, but drupal is very slow. Civicrm has no issues as far as I can tell (this is a production site and it's being used heavily).

I've installed a fresh installation of drupal and civi to see if it's the server or something in the drupal update - and the new installation works fast as lightening. So I set out to transfer my civicrm installation to a fresh drupal installation on the same server.

My problem is, it seems the instructions here are out of date, because a lot of things don't work:
wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/Moving+an+Existing+CiviCRM+Installation+from+one+Drupal+frontend+to+another

For one, the first sql statement refers to a table called "blocks". Doesn't exist - maybe since drupal 7? I see a "block" table, I assume that's what it's supposed to be. Then there's a reference to a "throttle" column in that table - a column that does not exist. This column is referred to again later, under the 6th statement.

Then there's the integration of users, the first statement just doesn't work altogether...

I wonder if anyone has any experience doing this sort of thing, or any suggestions?

Folks,

I've found that NULLing the config_backend means I have to set up a lot of my Global Settings again.

I find that all I need to do is edit the Drupal settings.php and civicrm.settings.php files to use the desired MySQL credentials, URLs, and directories. After that I clear out the template cache ( rm -r <drupal-root>/sites/default/files/civicrm/templates_c/en_US/%%* )

May I suggest doing that first? You can clear config_backend if that fails.

Ken