CiviCRM 1.5 and Drupal 5.0

Hmnnn. I'm also waiting for someone to reply to this 'coz I have a nice Drupal 5 beta installation but it seems like nobody's running CiviCRM 1.5 on Drupal 5.0 beta. Maybe they are taking seriously what the good people at CiviCRM said about v. 1.6 which should be coming out soon this month (see lobo's post on porting modules to Drupal 5.0: http://drupal.org/node/82257#comment-153919). For now, I'm happy that I have successfully installed CiviCRM 1.5 on Drupal 4.7.

Hi grace...I have managed to successfully install CiviCRM onto Drupal 4.7, but not without a lot of trial and error.

I decided to try to figure out the installation on my own instead of following those confusing instructions on the CiviCRM site. I don't use command line, so I did the install using FTP, File Manager and PHPMyAdmin.

The first thing I did was get Drupal 4.7 installed properly. Once that was done I checked and double checked my PHP and MySQL versions on my webhost and downloaded the Drupal Version of CiviCRM that matched it. From there I will list numbered steps I took to get this installed.

1. Used FTP to upload the zip/tar CiviCRM directly into the drupal/modules folder.

2. Used Control Panel to create database db_civicrm and gave full permissions to my main db user.

3. Went to File Manager and unzipped CiviCRM

4. Referred to CiviCRM instructions to find out which files I had to edit.

5. Edited the files server path using ./drupal/modules/civicrm/WHATEVERCOMESNEXT instead of trying to figure out the exact path, which was just easier and actually worked, so I went with it.

6. Edited the http:// paths where necessary

7. Added 4 folders with write permissions in the CiviCRM folder called upload, crm_docs, template_c and persist. What the CiviCRM instructions fail to tell you is that you have to MAKE those folders yourself and put them in the right place.

8. One of the files I had to edit had .sample in it. I moved that edited file into drupal/sites/default folder and changed the name so that it didn't have "sample" in it anymore. I think it was the civicrm.settings.php file if I remember correctly. I then copied that file into the civicrm folder.

9. I used FTP to download two sql files from my file directory. They were: civicrm_41 (you would use 40 or 41 depending on your version of mysql) and civicrm_generated.

10. Then I went to PHPMyAdmin and selected the civicrm database which at this point was still empty. Instead of using SQL and figuring out the direct path I chose "Import" and browsed my desktop to find the civicrm_41 sql file I had downloaded there. I didn't change ANY of the fields at all and clicked the Go/Enter button and that created all of the tables for CiviCRM for me. I did the same thing with the civicrm_generated sql file and that info was loaded as well.

11. Go to modules admin on your drupal site and enable civicrm and as long as you configured everything properly it should work for you.

I haven't tried this method with Drupal 5.0 Beta yet because I don't know if CiviCRM will work with it or not, but if you try it by setting up CiviCRM on it's OWN database if it doesn't work you can always delete all the CiviCRM files and it's database without wrecking your Drupal 5.0 Installation.

I really hope this helps you out and that it works for you. I spent 3 days trying to follow those instructions and they just didn't work for me at all. After doing all the things I have listed here I have CiviCRM working on Drupal 4.7 without any error messages...that I have seen so far, at least. Crossing my fingers, lol.

I have made a copy of the civicrm.settings.php file and highlighted everything I edited. If you have any problems with adjusting that file you can email me at ladycentaur@gmail.com and I will attach the small file to an email for you. I was going to post it here but the red text won't show up so it won't really be any different than you looking through the other examples.

NOTE: If you want to use CiviMail you will have to add it in the civicrm.settings.php file. You will see where CiviContribute and CiviMember are listed as being enabled. Just add a comma and type in CiviMail and save the file and refresh your page and CiviMail will show up in your site's CiviCRM menu.

Okay, I just installed CiviCRM 1.5 into my test Drupal 5.0 site and following the same steps I did with the other successful installation did not result in any errors but Drupal 5.0 does NOT even recognize CiviCRM 1.5 at all.

I used a separate database to try it out without breaking anything and it simply doesn't work at all.

I would suggest that you try a test install of the Drupal 4.7 with the CiviCRM 1.5 using the methods I listed to get a feel for installing that way and toy around with that some until CiviCRM 1.6 is available to download.

hi all,

i just installed civicrm 1.6 on a brand new install of drupal 5.0rc1. it seems to work, but i had trouble with the permissions. i was getting a permission denied error for /modules/civicrm/CRM/Utils/File.php on line 114. lines 113 and 114 of this file say the following:

but not being well versed in php i couldnt tell which directories it was trying to create. i tried changing ownership of the entire modules/civicrm directory and its subdirectories to the www-data user (aka the http user on some distros), which still gave me the same error. since i couldnt figure out what directories it was trying to create or where, i figured it might be somewhere outside the modules directory, and i gave ownership to the www-data user for ALL of the drupal install. it seems to work now (i havent tested it thoroughly), but it's a little annoying to have it set up that way. if anyone has a better solution, please either email me directly or post it here. thanks!

jessy