Services

Introduction

Vito gives you the ability to manage some of the installed services on your server. All the managed services are Systemd services. Here you can run some of the Systemd commands on the supported services.

Supported Services

Nginx
Caddy (beta)
PHP
MySQL
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
Redis
Valkey
Supervisor
UFW
Fail2ban
Monitoring (VitoAgent / RemoteMonitor)
GoAccess

To add more services, you can develop a plugin for Vito. You can find more information about plugins in the Plugins section.

Supported Operations

Start
Stop
Restart
Reload (reloads the service's configuration without a full restart, where supported)
Enable
Disable
Uninstall

Edit Service Configuration

For many services, Vito lets you edit the main configuration file directly from the dashboard. Open the service's Config action to view and edit files such as:

Nginx — /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
MySQL / MariaDB — /etc/mysql/my.cnf
PostgreSQL — /etc/postgresql/{version}/main/postgresql.conf
Redis — /etc/redis/redis.conf
Valkey — /etc/valkey/valkey.conf
Supervisor — /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf

After saving, reload or restart the service for the changes to take effect.

Editing configuration files incorrectly can break a service. Make sure you understand the change before saving.

Service Logs

Services that expose logs (for example Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis) have their logs available under the Logs section of the server.

Install

You can install new services from the Supported Services section.

Uninstall

Vito enables you to uninstall services that you don't want.

For example, you want to change your database from Mysql to PostgreSQL. You will need to uninstall Mysql first and then install PostgreSQL.

You cannot uninstall a service that is being used by other resources. For example, you cannot uninstall Nginx if you already have sites running on the server.