Apache Tomcat directory structure

Tomcat's directory structure:

bin

Keep all execution files, for example startup.bat and shutdown.bat.

conf

Keep all the common configuration files, such as server.xml.

lib (in 6.0, or common, server, shared in 5.5)

Keep all the common classes and jar files that will be shared by all JAVA and JSP files in webapp.

logs

Keep all the log files.

webapps

Keep all the JSP files, where you normally spend most of the time here.

temp

Temporary directory.

work

Keep the caches compiled from JSP and JAVA files from wepapp.