This article will help with using the Configuration File Manager of our Virtuozzo PaaS service.

Virtuozzo configuration manager allows you to control all of the files within the particular container. You can easily and quickly apply some standard configurations to your nodes through the comfortable GUI right in your browser, without the necessity to establish an SSH connection, that may be required for some complex operations.

Log in to the Virtuozzo dashboard and click the Config option of the relative node as shown below.

In the middle part of the dashboard, the corresponding configuration tab will be opened.

The following sections are available:

• Root (File Manager) - gives you access to the container’s local filesystem, where you can manage different settings within the configuration files of your app.
• Mount Points - list of folders, that are physically stored on the remote node but can be used at a current node (learn how you can mount data at Virtuozzo Cloud).
• Exports - list of folders, which are shared with other nodes, i.e. these files are stored locally but are also available at the remote instances. 
• Favorites - files and folders you’ve marked as favorites so that you have quick and simple access to them.

Configuration Manager Usage

Virtuozzo in-build file manager gives easy and convenient access to your container files and allows you to perform the majority of common operations right through the dashboard.

Note: You can also connect to a container via SSH in order to get even more possibilities for its management.

1. When switching to the Root section of the config manager, you’ll see the file system tree in the right-hand part, with the path string and the Actions for the current directory expandable list in the tools pane above. These options provide the following functionality:

• You can easily switch between directories within the path by clicking on any of the intermediate folders. Also, you can specify the target location manually by typing it in the appropriate input field, which appears upon clicking on the empty space wherever at the path bar

• The action list contains a number of functions for the selected directory management, like content refresh, new item creation, the addition of the selected item to favorites, its deletion, or remote directory mounting

2. Below the tools panel, you can see the files tree, intended for simple navigation between them and displaying additional information on the comprised files.

The following data is presented:

• Name - file name, which can be edited by clicking on the pencil icon (appears upon hovering over); also, you can manage the selected file by using the Additionally list
• Size - disk space consumed by a file
• Last Modified - date of file creation or its last changing
• Type - category a file belongs to (where the available types are regular file, directory, named pipe, socket, character device, and block device)

Note: Only the regular file type can be edited via the Config manager.

3. Each opened file (double click it or select the corresponding Open action for that) will be shown within the separate sub-tab, so you can switch between them without closing the previous one, which makes it more convenient to explore the file system.

Moreover, to simplify the operation of file management and editing, the appropriate Search option can be used, available by means of the same-named button at the top panel.

Just type the required piece of text to find and highlight all matches throughout your file. Use the additional options to narrow the search results even further:

• Match Case - allows you to perform a case sensitive search
• Regex - enables regular expressions for the search conditions specification

4. After you’ve finished file edits, don’t forget to Save changes you’ve made with a corresponding button at the top. Herewith, in case you are working with a layer of multiple nodes, you’ll be additionally asked whether it’s required to save the made changes only for the current instance or for all instances.

5. To make changes on some other node within the same layer, you can use the automatically fetched drop-down list at the top of the manager’s left part.

Note: that the already opened files will be automatically reloaded for the corresponding nodes upon switching.