Tomcat on FC4

These are some working notes on the configuration of Apache Tomcat on Fedora Core 4.

Application structure

/etc/tomcat5

This is the location of the Tomcat server configuration, including server.xml. On Fedora Core 4, it also contains a tomcat5.conf file that configures the service under which Tomcat runs.

The key configuration files are owned by root.

/usr/share/tomcat5

This is the path that the environment variable CATALINA_HOME refers to. On Fedora Core 4, most of the directories it contains are symbolic links to other locations, as follows:

common  -> /var/lib/tomcat5/common
conf    -> /etc/tomcat5
logs    -> /var/log/tomcat5
server  -> /var/lib/tomcat5/server
shared  -> /var/lib/tomcat5/shared
temp    -> /var/cache/tomcat5/temp
webapps -> /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps
work    -> /var/cache/tomcat5/work