Where is webapps in tomcat 7?

Question

I am a erlang chicago boss developer, I have been asked to install a tomcat and deploy 2 war files to start the website.

I installed it using guide :

sudo apt-get install tomcat7 

Now he has sent me some files which include menu.war and dashboard.war

Here it is referred as $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps in How do I deploy a WAR file in Tomcat?'

Can someone tell me where is my $TOMCAT_HOME directory?

$ echo $TOMCAT_HOME

Command is not displaying anything!

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Ok. Once you are done with tomcat installation using sudo apt-get install tomcat7, its for sure that it has installed somewhere in your machine say it under /opt or the path you have specified while installing.

Go to tomcat installation directory and this path has to be set as environment variable(TOMCAT_HOME). Even you leave it doesn't matter.

You can very well copy the 2 war files inside the webapps directory under tomcat folder.

EX: If you install tomcat7 under /opt, then /opt/tomcat7/webapps is place where you have to deploy the war files.