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I'm considering migrating a client's Joomla! CiviCRM to Drupal, as they are bumping into some limitations of the former CMS.

Are there any specific gotchas / considerations in moving their CiviCRM for Joomla over to CiviCRM for Drupal? Obviously I'll need to do some magic with the _uf_* tables, but I wonder if there are other considerations.

Would it be more suitable to load a backup of the DBs without the _uf_* tables, and let Drupal/CiviCRM sort out the remapping of users without reference to Joomla's data?

What else would need attending to?

PS. Feel free to relocate if this is more appropriate in another forum; couldn't see which one fitted this enquiry best.

thanks kurund. i'll report back how it goes

cheers

I just migrated from joomla 1.5 to drupal 6.12 and migrated civicrm 2.2.3 over as well. I did steps along the lines of what kurund suggested, and it seems to have worked successfully.

I have identified 2 issues. I'm not sure if this is related to the migration, but I'll put it down anyway:

1. In Administer CiviCRM > Configure > Global Settings, I still have "Joomla Integration Settings" in the list of options. I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour. Should it disappear or change to "Drupal Integration Settings"?

2. In CiviEvent, I clicked "Configure" on an existing event or a newly created event. So far so good. But in that next screen, half of the links (Event Information and Settings, Event Location, Event Fees, Online Registration, Tell a Friend) don't work. The problem I can see is the url is missing "civicrm/admin/event" before the "?", e.g. http://<home>/?reset=1&action=update&id=11&subPage=Location. I don't know if this is a CiviEvent bug or a problem with my migration. I tried upgrading to 2.2.5 but it didn't resolve the issue.

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1. In Administer CiviCRM > Configure > Global Settings, I still have "Joomla Integration Settings" in the list of options. I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour. Should it disappear or change to "Drupal Integration Settings"?

Nope. You will have to manually update this settings.

Do you mean update this setting manually in civicrm.settings.php?
I already have this:
define( 'CIVICRM_UF'               , 'Drupal'        );
Is there something else?

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2. In CiviEvent, I clicked "Configure" on an existing event or a newly created event. So far so good. But in that next screen, half of the links (Event Information and Settings, Event Location, Event Fees, Online Registration, Tell a Friend) don't work. The problem I can see is the url is missing "civicrm/admin/event" before the "?", e.g. http://<home>/?reset=1&action=update&id=11&subPage=Location. I don't know if this is a CiviEvent bug or a problem with my migration. I tried upgrading to 2.2.5 but it didn't resolve the issue.

Can you confirm if you have correct value for $civicrm_root and CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL in civicrm.settings.php

I'm pretty sure this it's right - unless it needs a trailing / at the end:
$civicrm_root = '/home/gospelgr/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm';
define( 'CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL'      , 'http://www.gospelgrowth.com.my/' );

Kurund checked it out and found that the solution was to update the database:

UPDATE `civicrm_db`.`civicrm_domain`
SET `config_backend` = NULL
WHERE `civicrm_domain`.`id` = 1
LIMIT 1;

The civicrm menus then disappeared from the sides because it was fixed for joomla. So to get them back I needed to give them positions using blocks in drupal.