Here are all of the important file locations in Debian Linux when you install Tomcat 7 from an "aptitude install" command.
| Location | Description |
|---|---|
| /var/log/tomcat7/ | These are all of your log files. |
| /etc/tomcat7/ | This location includes: server.xml, web.xml, tomcat-users.xml, context.xml |
| /etc/default/tomcat7 | This file contains your Java JVM options, and Tomcat impersonation! JAVA_OPTS, TOMCAT7_USER, TOMCAT7_GROUP |
| /usr/share/tomcat7/ | This folder contains the bin and lib folders for Tomcat |
| /var/lib/tomcat7/ | This folder contains the webapps folder (for WAR-file deployments), common, server, and shared folders (for server-level classpath inclusions) |
| /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT/ | This folder contains the "default" application served at: / on some configurations |
| /usr/share/tomcat7-root/ | This folder contains the "default" application served at: / on some configurations |
| /usr/share/tomcat7-admin/ | This is installed if you execute "aptitude install tomcat7-admin" and contains the /manager/, and /host-manager/ applications. |
I had a memory problem, so I had a hard time finding where to change the JAVA_OPTS variable. Come to find out it was in /etc/default/tomcat7!