Throughout the documentation, there are references to the two following properties:
- CATALINA_HOME: Represents the root of your Tomcat installation, for example
/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-9.0.10
orC:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-9.0.10
. - CATALINA_BASE: Represents the root of a runtime configuration of a specific Tomcat instance. If you want to have multiple Tomcat instances on one machine, use the
CATALINA_BASE
property.
If you set the properties to different locations, the CATALINA_HOME location contains static sources, such as .jar
files, or binary files. The CATALINA_BASE location contains configuration files, log files, deployed applications, and other runtime requirements.