Chevereto Upgrade (v4.0.12 > v4.5.2)

[Mortgage]

Hey,

Would anyone be interested in upgrading my Chevereto Installation from v4.0.12 to latest v4.5.2?

Paid of course.

Rodolfo did do this for me and it kinda worked (thanks Rodolfo!). However, I think when I attempted the encryption (maybe.. I didn't test before) and it threw an error about moderatecontent_key it all started to go wrong.

SFTP active storage being ignored, user profile/background photos are broken media and more. I did restore my website to v4.0.12 and put the broken 4.5.2 install on a sub-domain as I try and figure out what's wrong..

Before I attempted encryption following these steps I forgot to take a backup so I've had to restore to v4.0.12 again (my last backup).

Spoiler: Error

/app/bin/cli -C encrypt-secrets
[!] 🔓 Assuming no database encryption
[!] 👀 Secrets will be shown decrypted
* Encrypting settings
- api_v1_key:
- email_smtp_server:
- email_smtp_server_password:
- email_smtp_server_port:
- email_smtp_server_username:
- email_ahasend_api_key:
- email_ses_access_key:
- email_ses_secret_key:
- email_azure_resource_name:
- email_azure_key:
- email_brevo_api_key:
- email_infobip_api_key:
- email_infobip_base_url:
- email_mailgun_api_key:
- email_mailgun_domain:
- email_mailjet_access_key:
- email_mailjet_secret_key:
- email_mailomat_api_key:
- email_mailpace_api_token:
- email_mailersend_api_key:
- email_mailtrap_api_token:
- email_mandrill_api_key:
- email_microsoftgraph_client_id:
- email_microsoftgraph_client_secret:
- email_microsoftgraph_tenant_id:
- email_postal_api_key:
- email_postal_base_url:
- email_postmark_api_token:
- email_resend_api_key:
- email_scaleway_project_id:
- email_scaleway_api_key:
- email_sendgrid_api_key:
- email_sweego_api_key:
- captcha_secret:
- disqus_secret_key:
?Hn
- akismet_api_key:
- moderatecontent_key:
LogicException in /public_html/app/src/Legacy/Classes/Settings.php:860

# Message [Code #600]
Trying to modify restricted setting(s): moderatecontent_key

# Time
2026-04-25T20:09:40+00:00 [1777147780]

# Incident <hidden>

# Backtrace
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0 /public_html/app/src/Legacy/Classes/Settings.php:860
{main}()
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1 /public_html/app/legacy/commands/cipher.php:39
Chevereto\Legacy\Classes\Settings::update()
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2 /public_html/app/legacy/commands/encrypt-secrets.php:38
require(string(length=57))
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3 /public_html/app/legacy/entrypoints/cli.php:86
require_once(string(length=66))
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4 /public_html/app/bin/cli:13
require_once(string(length=57))
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PS: Does anyone know if it's possible to delete public_html entirely, upload v4.5.2 files => fresh install using the wizard then replacing the fresh database with my old v4.0.12 database and running /update? Would this work?

This is no hate or disrespect to Rodolfo he did exactly what I asked. I just forgot to do a backup of his v4.5.2 upgrade so cant roll back to find out if it was broken already or if it was my encryption. Silly me.