File Manager

Last updated September 30, 2025

Introduction

This is a short article on how you can use our file manager to manage your website files.

The File Management Screen

Note: The Files and FTP tool applies only to the Webdock servers running on our LEMP / LAMP stacks. Servers running on clean OS images do not see this tool.

This is how it looks:

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You can deploy the File Manager. Once deployed you'll be shown the login credentials.

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With the file manager, you can do basic tasks like deleting a file from the webroot, zip some files to download, upload a file, etc.

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On the right you can pull, edit, and push the changes to a file. Here, as you can see, I'm editing the php.ini configuration file.

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That's it. This is all you need to get started!

Conclusion

This article showed you can access our web-based file manager and also on quick-edit of some configuration files.

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