Determine the storage mode of configurations
To determine where the configurations of Sitefinity CMS are stored, perform the following:
    - Open the web.config
 
    - Find section 
<telerik>. 
    - Inside section 
<sitefinity> you can have one of the following lines:
    
        - If your configurations are stored in Auto-storage mode:
        <sitefinityConfig storageMode="Auto" /> 
        - If your configurations are stored in FileSystem storage mode:
        <sitefinityConfig storageMode="FileSystem" /> 
        - If your configurations are stored in Database storage mode:
        <sitefinityConfig storageMode="Database" />  
    
     
NOTE: If you are in Auto-storage mode and you have Read-only mode turned on, the line will look in the following way: <sitefinityConfig storageMode="Auto" restrictionLevel="ReadOnlyConfigFile" />