
Building Websites with OpenCms

Once you have logged back into the Workplace, you should be back in the explorer view. On the left-hand side is a file tree that shows all of the file folders in the Virtual File System (VFS):
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The VFS is a file-system-like storage mechanism that looks and acts like a normal file system, but stores information inside tables in the database. For that reason, you will not be able to find any set of files on your regular file system that corresponds to the files in the VFS. Because the VFS looks and acts like a file system, VFS paths are expressed like URL- or UNIX-style paths. The root folder is /
, and subsequent folders are noted by a name followed (optionally) by a slash. For instance, the location of the bodies
folder in the image on the above is expressed by the path /system/bodies/
.
During publishing, OpenCms can publish resources into the regular file system. These files are copies of those inside OpenCms. Editing these copies is not the same as editing the content...
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