A typical tomcat server will have the following directories:
/bin: Contains the start-up and shutdown scripts
for both Windows and Linux. Jar files with classes required for tomcat to start
are also stored here.
/conf: Contains the main configuration files for
Tomcat. The two most important are server.xml and the global web.xml.
/lib: Contains the Tomcat Java Archive (jar)
files, shared across all Tomcat components. All web applications deployed to
Tomcat can access the libraries stored here. This includes the Servlet API and
JSP API libraries.
/logs: Contains Tomcat’s log files.
/temp: Temporary file system storage.
/webapps: The directory where all web applications
are deployed, and where you place your WAR file when it is ready for
deployment.
/work: Tomcat’s working directory where Tomcat
places all servlets that are generated from JSPs. If you want to see exactly
how a particular JSP is interpreted, look in this directory.
