diff --git a/src/App.php b/src/App.php
index 08cf382b54..e1843e5737 100644
--- a/src/App.php
+++ b/src/App.php
@@ -154,25 +154,6 @@ class App
 
 		$this->basepath = rtrim($basepath, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
 
-		// The order of the following calls is important to ensure proper initialization
-		$this->loadConfigFiles();
-
-		$this->loadDatabase();
-
-		$this->determineMode();
-
-		$this->determineUrlPath();
-
-		Config::load();
-
-		if ($this->mode & self::MODE_DBAVAILABLE) {
-			Core\Addon::loadHooks();
-
-			$this->loadAddonConfig();
-		}
-
-		$this->loadDefaultTimezone();
-
 		$this->performance['start'] = microtime(true);
 		$this->performance['database'] = 0;
 		$this->performance['database_write'] = 0;
@@ -194,6 +175,25 @@ class App
 		$this->callstack['rendering'] = [];
 		$this->callstack['parser'] = [];
 
+		// The order of the following calls is important to ensure proper initialization
+		$this->loadConfigFiles();
+
+		$this->loadDatabase();
+
+		$this->determineMode();
+
+		$this->determineUrlPath();
+
+		Config::load();
+
+		if ($this->mode & self::MODE_DBAVAILABLE) {
+			Core\Addon::loadHooks();
+
+			$this->loadAddonConfig();
+		}
+
+		$this->loadDefaultTimezone();
+
 		$this->page = [
 			'aside' => '',
 			'bottom' => '',
diff --git a/src/Model/PermissionSet.php b/src/Model/PermissionSet.php
index a5d5ed2b85..c31e88bf17 100644
--- a/src/Model/PermissionSet.php
+++ b/src/Model/PermissionSet.php
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ class PermissionSet extends BaseObject
 	public static function fetchIDForPost($postarray)
 	{
 		$condition = ['uid' => $postarray['uid'],
-			'allow_cid' => self::sortPermissions($postarray['allow_cid']),
-			'allow_gid' => self::sortPermissions($postarray['allow_gid']),
-			'deny_cid' => self::sortPermissions($postarray['deny_cid']),
-			'deny_gid' => self::sortPermissions($postarray['deny_gid'])];
+			'allow_cid' => self::sortPermissions(defaults($postarray, 'allow_cid', '')),
+			'allow_gid' => self::sortPermissions(defaults($postarray, 'allow_gid', '')),
+			'deny_cid' => self::sortPermissions(defaults($postarray, 'deny_cid', '')),
+			'deny_gid' => self::sortPermissions(defaults($postarray, 'deny_gid', ''))];
 
 		$set = dba::selectFirst('permissionset', ['id'], $condition);