CiviCRM Installation Notes

Initial Installation

9/6/2014

CiviCRM is installed in our main hosting order, under the subdirectory "crew/".

We're using the drupal version of civicrm, since drupal civi has some useful plugins for political organizations. Drupal was installed via the mf/pl control panel.

crew is under git source control. ~/masspirates.org/include/git/crew.git is a bare repository, and the master copy.

For themes

 drush pm-download zen
 drush pm-enable zen

I haven't done any theme customization yet.

Additional modules installed

• pathauto
• token

Installed civicrm, according to instructions at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Drupal+Installation+Guide+for+CiviCRM+4.5+-+Drupal+7

Intially, I configured civicrm to use a dedicated database. Later, I discovered that certain things are easier if civicrm uses the same database as drupal itself. I mysqldumped civicrm's database and loaded it into crew's drupal database, and changed civi's configuration file accordingly.

Configuration checklist: https://masspirates.org/crew/civicrm/admin/configtask

Installer URL: https://masspirates.org/crew/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php

Webform Integration

9/21/2014

Today, I worked on configuration webform/civicrm integration. This amounted to installing webform, webform_civicrm, and dependent modules. Aka

 drush pm-download webform
 drush pm-enable webform
 drush pm-download webform_civicrm
 drush pm-enable webform_civicrm

Also had to enable module "CiviCRM Contact Reference Field"

This seems to work. You can create a webform, contact information creates new Civicrm contacts, and form submission can be recorded as civicrm activities.

Civicrm 4.5.0 Upgrade

9/21/2014

Also updated civicrm

 drush civicrm-upgrade --tarfile=$HOME/civicrm-4.5.0-drupal.tar.gz

This failed on the last step:

 WD php: Exception: Your database has already been upgraded to CiviCRM 4.4.6 in            [error]
 CRM_Upgrade_Headless->run() (line 53 of
 masspirates.org/web/crew/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Upgrade/Headless.php).
 Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at           [warning]
 /usr/share/drush/includes/output.inc:37) bootstrap.inc:1224
 Exception: Your database has already been upgraded to CiviCRM 4.4.6 in CRM_Upgrade_Headless->run() (line 53 of masspirates.org/web/crew/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Upgrade/Headless.php).
 Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error.                        [error]

Let's try the database upgrade separately

 drush civicrm-upgrade-db

That seemed to work successfully.

All filesystem changes committed to source control, and pushed to origin/master.