| Directories and files | Explanation |
| bin | Used to store the tomcat start, stop drinking and other batch scripts Shell scripts |
| bin/startup.bat | It used to start tomcat under Windows |
| bin/startup.sh | It used to start tomcat under Linux |
| bin/shutdown.bat | To stop tomcat under Windows |
| bin/shutdown.sh | To stop tomcat in Linux |
| conf | For related configuration files of tomcat |
| conf / Catalina | Context used to store configuration for each virtual machine |
| conf/context.xml | Context is used to define all Web applications are configured to load, if a Web application specifies its own context.xml, then the configuration file will be overwritten |
| conf/catalina.properties | tomcat environment variable configuration |
| conf/ctatlina.policy | When tomcat running in safe mode, this file is the default security policy configuration |
| conf/logging.properties | tomcat configuration log file, the log level and can be modified tomcat path through which the log file, etc. |
| conf/server.xml | tomcat server core configuration files for configuring tomcat linker, virtual host listening port] to process the request and so on. It can be said, tomcat main server instance is created based on the configuration information of the file |
| conf/tomcat-users.xml | Tomcat used to define the default user and role mapping information, tomcat's Manager module that is used for secure authentication of the user defined in the file |
| conf / web.xml | tomcat default in all applications deployment descriptor file, define the basis for the main Servlet and MIME map. If the application does not contain Web.xml, then tomcat will use this file to initialize the deployment descriptor, on the contrary, tomcat will be the default deployment descriptors and custom configuration at boot merger |
| lib | tomcat server dependencies directory that contains the server runtime environment dependent Jar package tomcat |
| logs | tomcat default log storage path |
| webapps | tomcat default Web application deployment directory |
| work | JSP Web application code generation and compilation temporary directory |
"Tomcat architecture analysis" with Liuguang Rui