Template not updating after autoupdate copy

[volex]

Hi,

I just auto-updated from 7.5.0 to 7.5.1 and noticed an odd issue. It gave the list of changed files as we've made some small modifications to admin and client area tpl files. After updating I checked the diffs and copied over the old files where it was safe to do so but noticed these had no effect. I thought it might be due to caching somewhere but there was nothing in the templates_c so I couldn't figure it out, all looked correct. It seems however that WHMCS is using a timestamp and possibly the wrong one to see if a file is updated/modified, I have no idea where it cached the old page but once I ran a touch templatename.tpl on the template file to update the timestamp it then displayed correctly instead of showing the default template.

This isn't very intuitive and my guess is it's using the access or modify time instead of the change time as shown below as this is what it looks like when I stat the file after the copy:

public_html]# stat clients/templates/orderforms/standard_cart/configuredomains.tpl

  File: ‘clients/templates/orderforms/standard_cart/configuredomains.tpl’

  Size: 11778     Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   regular file

Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 4328724     Links: 1

Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1003/   smain)   Gid: ( 1003/   smain)

Access: 2018-04-13 13:03:48.285266450 +0100

Modify: 2018-04-12 21:59:22.156422624 +0100

Change: 2018-04-18 11:34:25.828407210 +0100

If it used the Change time instead of Access/Modify then it would realise that this has indeed been updated so it needs to update/recache and use the template file.

[WHMCS John]

Hi @volex,

The path to your template cache is defined in the configuration.php file. Please ensure you're referring to the correct location.

You can also clear the cache via Utilities > System Cleanup.