Tomcat and FHS conformance

[Christoph Sch?nfeld <cs...@alcedis.de>]

why do the RPMs obtainable from jakarta.apache.org place Tomcat in /var/tomcat? The FHS says /var should contain "variable data" but Tomcat is a program. So actually it belongs into /usr/lib/tomcat or somewhere else. But the classes and config files definitely do not belong into /var, right?

I also feel a bit uncomfortable putting my webapps below $TOMCAT_HOME because it looks like they were part of the Tomcat distribution. 

I'd like to have a clear separation of the webapps and Tomcat just like the separation of the Apache binaries from web content (/var/www on Debian or /var/lib/httpd on Redhat). For me, they should be placed in /var/webapps or /var/lib/tomcat/webapps.

How do you see this? Does the current organization have Windows-portability reasons?

Christoph

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