#Update drupal 7 manually upgrade#

#Update drupal 7 manually upgrade#

So the first thing you need to do is upgrade CiviCRM to the DRUPAL 6 VERSION of CiviCRM 4.x (where 4.x is whatever version is current at the time of the upgrade - at the time of writing this, it's 4.2.8), with the site in maintenance mode, of course, if you’re doing this on the live site. And CiviCRM 3.x is not compatible with Drupal 7, so there's no way to have CiviCRM enabled under Drupal 7 until after you've upgraded it to 4.x. The reason for this is that in order for CiviCRM's upgrade script to run successfully, the module has to be enabled - but if you've just upgraded from Drupal 6 to 7, all Drupal 6 modules are disabled automatically, so the CiviCRM upgrade script won't run. The first and most important thing we found was that you really, really need to upgrade CiviCRM first and Drupal second.

The pink boxes on the chart represent the actual steps involved, with the green ones being the state of the site(s) you’re working on between the various steps.

Since we're likely to have a number of other combined upgrades like that to do in the future, we wanted to iron out the best process for doing them as smoothly as possible.Īnd we thought it might be useful to share what we’ve got thus far with others in the CiviCRM community, partly because it might help other people, and partly to find out others’ experiences: do you agree with what we’ve outlined here? Disagree? Have anything you’d want to add/change? We’re thinking of contributing this to the wiki documentation, but wanted to post it here for discussion first. The attached chart came out of a discussion between Kasia Wakarecy, Lola Slade and myself (Lynna Landstreet), at Freeform Solutions, about some issues we'd encountered when trying to to do major version upgrades of CiviCRM and Drupal on a client's site at the same time.