Tomcat Configuration Files

As a Tomcat administrators you must familiarize yourself some of the concepts and files about Tomcat Container .

Tomcat Directories and Files :

1)bin - Startup, shutdown, and other scripts.

2)conf - Configuration files and related DTDs. (server.xml , tomct-users.xml , content.xml)

server.xml : The most important file in here is server.xml. It is the main configuration file for the Tomcat container.

tomct-users.xml : Users are defined in tomcat-user.xml file to access the tomcat container manager webapp .

content.xml : The contents of this file will be loaded for each web application .

3)logs - Log files are here by default.

4)webapps - Webapps folder is for deploying you webapps .

All configuration files is read at container startup, that any change to the files restart of the container is necessary to reflect the changes .

Tomcat Installation : http://jeeservers.blogspot.in/2014/01/tomcat-installation-in-windows-and-unix.html