Directory Structure

$CATALINA_HOME this represents the root of your Tomcat installation. When I say, "This information can be found in your $CATALINA_HOME/README.txt file" I mean to look at the README.txt file at the root of your Tomcat install. Optionally, Tomcat may be configured for multiple instances by defining $CATALINA_BASE for each instance. If multiple instances are not configured, $CATALINA_BASE is the same as $CATALINA_HOME.

• \bin – It consists of startup, shutdown, and other scripts.
• \conf - It consists of configuration files and related DTDs. The most important file in here is server.xml. It is the main configuration file for the container.
• \logs - Log files are here by default.
• \webapps - This is where your webapps go.