These directories are where you drop WAR files or directories containing Web applications. Once you restart the server, you automatically get a custom Web application whose URL prefix matches the main name of the WAR file (minus the.war extension) or the directory name. For lots more control over Web application deployment, see Section 4.1 (Registering Web Applications).
Tomcat.
install_dir/webapps
JRun. (No autodeployment prior to version 4)
install_dir/servers/default
ServletExec.
install_dir/webapps/default
The following figure summarizes where you place different types of files within each of your Web applications. Again, the URLs cited assume that you have customized the server to use port 80 as described in Section 1.3.
3.141.4.167