# Files and SFTP

> The file manager, uploads, archives, permissions — and why an uploaded file no longer stops the server from starting.

Source: https://stygion.eu/docs/panel/soubory
Updated: 2026-08-30

![The file manager](https://stygion.eu/shots/panel/files.webp)

Every server has one directory on the host, mounted in the container as
`/home/container`. Everything else — the image, the container, the
network — can be thrown away and rebuilt. This directory cannot. It *is*
the server.

## The file manager

The **Files** tab sits over that directory. It does what you expect:
browse, upload, download, rename, delete, make a folder.

Two more things save the most time when something is wrong:

- **Archive to .zip** and **extract here**. Upload a modpack as one file
  and unpack it in place, instead of two hundred individual uploads.
- **Change permissions**. Explained below.

Text files open in an editor with highlighting for JSON, YAML and
JavaScript, so a config can be fixed without downloading it.

## Permissions

This used to be the most tiring detail in the whole panel: upload a
file, the server refuses to start because it cannot read it, and the fix
was an SSH session on the host.

The panel now gives an uploaded file the owner the game image actually
runs as. That user is detected from the image — the `pelican-eggs` and
`parkervcp` families use different numbers — so it is not a guess.

If something still ends up wrong (a file brought in from elsewhere, a
backup restored from another panel), **Change permissions** fixes it
from the browser. You no longer go in over SSH for this.

## SFTP

The panel listens for SFTP on port **2022**. You sign in with your
**panel username and password**; which servers you can reach is governed
by the same permissions as in the browser — [sharing a
server](/docs/panel/uzivatele) with `files` opens both at once.

```
sftp -P 2022 your-name@panel.example.com
```

It is SFTP, not SSH — there is no shell. When you need a shell, that
belongs on the machine, not in the panel.

## What does not belong in the data directory

- **Backups.** They have their own tab and their own storage; a copy of
  the world beside the world backs itself up and only confuses a
  restore.
- **`.stygion/`.** That is where the panel keeps the pipe it sends
  [console](/docs/panel/konzole) commands down. Delete it and the panel
  makes it again at the next start — but until that start, the console
  is mute.

Next: [Backups](/docs/panel/zalohy).