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Once Tomcat has been installed, you will see a directory structure something like:

(This one was installed with my NetBeans installation.)

The typical directory hierarchy of a Tomcat installation consists of the following:

• bin - startup, shutdown and other scripts and executables
• common - common classes that Catalina and web applications can use
• conf - XML files and related DTDs to configure Tomcat
• logs - Catalina and application logs
• server - classes used only by Catalina
• shared - classes shared by all web applications
• webapps - directory containing the web applications
• work - temporary storage for files and directories

However, alternative configurations are possible.