Please note: This page is imported from my wiki, which hasn't been updated in over 10 years. Some of the formatting was lost during the import. I'll try to get around to fixing it someday.
web.xml
When a webapp is loaded, $CATALINAHOME/conf/web.xml is parsed, then <APPHOME>/WEB-INF.xml. The shared version of web.xml should contain directives for all webapps.
$CATALINA_HOME hold the path to the root of the Tomcat installation
Tomcat can either be installed as a service, or can be run as a daemon. It should always be run using the startup script in bin/
Users are configured using conf/tomcat-user.xml
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