System settings are not saved

Are those setting specified in your /system/user/config/config.php file? values in there will always override what is stored in the database settings.

https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/general/system-configuration-overrides.html

Thanks! It was a while since I worked with EE so I had totally forgot about this. The problem is now fixed.

I’m experiencing this same issue. My config.php did not include a config setting for base_url. I added one but the field is still empty in the CP.

EE version 5.2.4

Editing to add: As a temp fix for the frontend links to work, I edited the Website root directory field so it didn’t use {base_url} and instead included the website url. Once I saved the settings, the field for base_url was no longer empty and showed the correct URL.

To the config.php I added settings for:

$config[‘site_url’] $config[‘theme_folder_url’] $config[‘theme_folder_path’]

This solved the empty base_url field and also added an base_path field (I’m pretty sure it was not present before?)

Thanks, Magnus.

I would think that if I didn’t have any of those config settings listed in config.php (which I didn’t) that I would be able to fill the fields in and save them within the EE admin.

I’ve just been experiencing this same issue, with an EE 5.4.2 site - and stumbled across this post.

Having tried a few things, I concluded that there were so many legacy bits and bobs in the config.php file (from previous versions, where I have upgraded EE so much over the years), that things are quite behaving as they should, when trying to set the URL Settings in the Control Panel.

So I found a more recent 5.4.2 site and copied the config.php file contents (which seems to be so much lighter, by the way). Then I just inserted the correct values for the site I’m working on and it seems to have fixed the problem.

I appreciate this might not be “correct and proper” way to do things, but it worked. 😊

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

$config['cookie_prefix'] = '';
$config['require_cookie_consent'] = 'n';
$config['force_redirect'] = 'n';
$config['debug'] = '1';
$config['enable_devlog_alerts'] = 'n';
$config['cache_driver'] = 'file';
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['is_system_on'] = 'y';
$config['multiple_sites_enabled'] = 'n';
$config['show_ee_news'] = 'n';
// ExpressionEngine Config Items
// Find more configs and overrides at
// https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/general/system_configuration_overrides.html

$config['app_version'] = '5.4.2';
$config['encryption_key'] = 'VALUE IN HERE';
$config['session_crypt_key'] = 'VALUE IN HERE';
$config['database'] = array(
 'expressionengine' => array(
  'hostname' => 'localhost',
  'database' => 'VALUE IN HERE',
  'username' => 'VALUE IN HERE',
  'password' => 'VALUE IN HERE',
  'dbprefix' => 'exp_',
  'char_set' => 'utf8mb4',
  'dbcollat' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
  'port'     => ''
 ),
);
$config['share_analytics'] = 'n';

// EOF