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Hi All,
I'm about at wits end with this. I'm moving a development server (so this thing will have to get moved again to a live server, and I expect loads of data migration to catch the development server up with the live server once that happens.) So understanding and mastering moving data around from Database to database is pretty important for me.

So I have 2.2.7 running as a module of Drupal. When the data has been moved from the other server with phpmyadmin I get a white screen of death whenever the civicrm module is enabled and I request a webpage from the site. If I start fresh and have civicrm run its install script, everything works fine, but I need the data, so I migrate the data and get Tons of foreign key errors, so I go through each table one by one trying to resolve the foreign key issues and once all the data is in - low and behold, the white screen of death....

So a few questions:
-White screen of Death: I'd like to see an error about what is going on. the Browser would a nice place to see it, as far as I can tell the CiviCRM logs and the apache log isn't giving me the database errors.

What's up with all the foreign key dependencies? This is really making data migration difficult......anyone have an idea of an efficient way to deal with this?

Thanks for any help!

Thanks for the response.
Actually, that page was a bit frustrating:
This url: http://<drupal_site>/civicrm/admin/setting/updateConfigBackend?reset=1

Depends on Drupal being able to run with the civicrm module active. Problem is my migration of Civicrm crashes Drupal when the civicrm module is active.

So is there a URL to the update that doesn't require the module to be active in Drupal?

Also: Any idea how to obtain the Database errors I am assuming that are causing the whole thing? I'd love them to show up in the browser window, and if I can't get that, then a log is fine, but for some reason, the logs are not logging the events that are causing the blank screens.