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Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 06, 2012, 12:53:40 pm
Hi I am currently using Drupal 6.2 and CiviCRM 3.3. I wish to use the new Drupal 7 with CiviCRM 4.1.1. Do I upgrade Drupal first to 7? Or do I upgrade CiviCRM to 4.1.1 first? I know I can remain on Drupal 6 but I would like to use Drupal 7, you see.

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Re: Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 07, 2012, 03:17:35 am
You would have to do both obviously, as CiviCRM 4.1.1 does not work with Drupal 6. As a working instruction, I would first upgrade to Drupal 7, then CiviCRM. And obviously on a sandbox first :-)
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Re: Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 07, 2012, 11:23:49 am
Thanks for your advice regarding upgrading Drupal first before CiviCRM. Unless I read it wrong, CiviCRM 4.1 and onward now supports Drupal 6 as well as 7?

Is upgrading Drupal 6 to 7 with CiviCRM previously installed particularly difficult? I would have preferred to remain on Drupal 6, but my colleagues say Drupal 6 support by CiviCRM the organization is going away quite soon?

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Re: Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 09, 2012, 07:01:40 am
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Unless I read it wrong, CiviCRM 4.1 and onward now supports Drupal 6 as well as 7?
4.1 should support both, that was new to me too  :D
In that case, I would possibly update CiviCRM first and then later over to Drupal 7. I am not sure what the support lifetime for Drupal 6 is, personally I am planning for an upgrade to Drupal 7 for my biggest customer in 2013....
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Re: Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 26, 2012, 09:56:16 am
 We've upgraded upgrade the production site to 4.1 for Drupal  6 as we needed some of the patches for memberships.  Ugrading Drupal to 7 is still a future project, so I am hoping that order of upgrades does not cause trouble!

Has anyone upgraded D6 to D7 running civi 4.1?   (this may be a summer project)

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Re: Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 26, 2012, 04:57:30 pm
Quote from: mclyde on April 26, 2012, 09:56:16 am
Has anyone upgraded D6 to D7 running civi 4.1?   (this may be a summer project)

This is an interesting question. I don't think anyone has, nor is there any documentation for this AFAIK.

You would have to disable CiviCRM, run the D6-D7 upgrade and then:

  • Replace the CiviCRM module files of course, with the D7 version
  • Change "define( 'CIVICRM_UF', 'Drupal6');" to "define( 'CIVICRM_UF', 'Drupal');" i.e. delete the 6, in civicrm.settings.php

I think that would be it.

Or you could probably:

  • Replace the CiviCRM module files with the D7 version
  • Rename civicrm.settings.php
  • Install CiviCRM into a fresh database
  • Change the CiviCRM DB reference in the new civicrm.settings.php to your old DB

This is all theoretical thus far however. :)
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Re: Civi4.1.1: Do I upgrade Drupal first or CiviCRM first?
April 26, 2012, 07:36:23 pm

My answer on IRC to someone on this topic today was:

 1. upgrade civi to 4.1.2 on d6. Make sure u set the UF to Drupal6 in civicrm.settings.php
 2. upgrade d6 to d7
 3. adjust civicrm.settings.php to revert the change in #1

I'd keep civicrm enabled the entire time

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