Preferences Not Updating After Updating to 4.1.1

[Geoffrey]

We are trying to update from 4.0.1 to 4.1.1 and ran into an issue with some of the preferences.  The banner preview wasn't showing so I checked the preferences page and that option was not selected, where it is still selected on the pre-update installation.  When you update the preferences and click save, it shows a green message box that the changes were saved but the options revert back.  The timezone is showing the same symptom.  The database user has full privileges to the database. 

The error logs are showing the following message multiple times:

Oct 25 09:58:46 -0400 OX-59f09895f0ca9 [  warning]  Declaration of HTML_QuickForm_file::_findValue() should be compatible with HTML_QuickForm_element::_findValue(&$values)

We are running MySQL 5.7.20 and PHP 7.0.22 on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS).  We've been running Revive for about a year and this is the first time we've had an issue upgrading.

Do you have any suggestions?  Thank you!

[andrewatfornax]

Hi @Geoffrey,

Sounds like a permission issue with the config file (e.g. special mount permissions overriding what the file permissions say), or possibly an issue with the upgrade process. 

Can you roll back to 4.0.1 in your staging environment to check the behavior prior to upgrading?

[Geoffrey]

We use Puppet for our configuration, so the two installations were identical except for the folder/database names.  I cloned the site to our test environment and everything worked as expected before the upgrade.  Then I performed the update there and it worked!

The only difference between this time and the other times I tried was cloning the site first instead of trying to upgrade directly to the staging environment.  Either way, it's working now so I'm happy!  Thank you for your assistance!

[andrewatfornax]

Hi @Geoffrey,

Great, glad you got it fixed, and very happy to hear of a Revive Adserver user using proper tools like Puppet for configuration management!