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Hi all,
First experience using civiCRM. After many hours of frustration simply moving an installation from one server to another, I finally discovered that the fatal error that was causing civiCRM to not work with Drupal and the new server, and was in fact causing a fatal error logged only by Apache as a "segmentation fault", was caused by old paths existing in the config_backend field in the database.

I'll update the wiki about moving servers, because there was not really a good warning for this, no errors that I received that were particularly helpful, and no real helpful description of how to deal with it in any od th docs.

Is there a good reason why some configuration settings exist in the database and others in a file?

For ease of migration, installation and tweaking, it seems to me that all the configuration information should live in a file - easy to edit, easy to read and when things don't work right, there is just one place to look.

yes I did of course read this:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Moving+an+Existing+Installation+to+a+New+Server+or+Location

I found that the instructions did not work and in fact updated that very document to try to provide some hope to somebody in the same situation as I am in. (looks like somebody else removed the changes I made - bummer)

here is information about what I encountered and how I dealt with it - not sure why somebody removed this info from the wiki:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,9213.msg39712.html#msg39712

And if you could please help me with one last thing on this:
These paths (to css and jquery, etc) are still all broken when I try to open civicrm pages:
<script type="text/javascript" src="packages/jquery/plugins/flexigrid.js"></script>

On the previous server the paths were correct:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/jquery/plugins/flexigrid.js"></script>

Now that I can access http://sfgirlschorus.candhprojects.com/civicrm/admin/setting?reset=1
I can change the path to the "Resource URLS" but despite having the path correct here, the path packages/jquery/plugins/flexigrid.js does not seem to change.

What do I need to do?