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Upgrade 4.16 D6 to 4.2 D7 - how?
August 27, 2012, 09:56:54 am
I want to upgrade a Drupal 6 install of 4.1.5 to 4.2 under Drupal 7.   I guess that I should follow the guide for upgrading a Drupal 7 site that is found here http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC42/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+4.2+-+Drupal+7   
Is this the right guide to follow? I guess I move from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 in between stages 6 and 7 of this guide?
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Re: Upgrade 4.16 D6 to 4.2 D7 - how?
August 27, 2012, 11:52:43 am
Not exactly. This double upgrade is slightly complicated. What I would do is:

1. Disable CiviCRM
2. Upgrade Drupal to 7 (and any modules)
3. Install a fresh CiviCRM 4.2 into a "spare" database
4. Edit sites/default/civicrm.settings.php to have it connect to your real database
5. Run the CiviCRM upgrader civicrm/upgrade?reset=1

Just be sure not to do anything whatsoever between steps 4 and 5. :)
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Re: Upgrade 4.16 D6 to 4.2 D7 - how?
November 10, 2012, 04:15:35 pm
Because I didn't come across this at first.  I just tried another method proposed by Lobo, upgrade civi first to 4.2 drupal6 and then upgrade drupal.  So far it seems to have worked; though, I haven't done a ton of testing yet.  (I was upgrading from 3.4.6)

Steps I used
1. Upgrade civi to 4.2 drupal6 per std instructions
2. Put site into maintenance
3. Copy sites directory to someplace above where it is
4. Delete everything in the web root directory
5. Unpack drupal 7
6. Copy sites directory back
7. Edit sites/default/civicrm.settings.php and change the CIVICRM_UF from Drupal6 to Drupal
8. If upgrading from something pre 4.0 add the additional definitions defined in step 9 on the "Upgrade Drupal Sites to 4.2 - Drupal 7" wiki page
9. Delete or rename the sites/all/module/civicrm directory
10. Unpack civicrm-4.2.6-drupal into sites/all/modules
11. Run the drupal upgrade  http://yoursite/update.php

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