Openfire Service Restart - Setup not saving.

I have a VPS running Centos.

I have succesfully installed and setup Openfire 3.10.2.
I was able to log in. create users and connect... however as soon as the openfire service is restarted :9090 goes back to the setup and connection via xmpp client doesn't work. Its like a fresh install.

I edited the openfire.xml file and changed <setup>True</setup> to <setup>false</setup>

This issue still occurs and still reverts to setup.

Thanks.