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When reading manuals / tutorials on setting up JDBC with Tomcat I frequently come across references to the "Tomcat's HOME\lib" directory. E.g.:

Add the driver to your classpath, to your project, or to Tomcat's HOME\lib directory.

Other times, reference is made to the "$CATALINA_HOME/lib" directory. E.g.:

Before you proceed, don't forget to copy the JDBC Driver's jar into $CATALINA_HOME/lib.

I am running Tomcat 7.0.53 and am aware of the following locations:

  1. /usr/share/tomcat7
  2. /var/lib/tomcat7 (where the webapps/ directory resides)
  3. /etc/tomcat7

Of the above location only /usr/share/tomcat7 contains a lib directory with jars. Is this the "Tomcat's HOME\lib" directory? What is then, the CATALINA_HOME/lib directory?

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Its located user /usr/share/tomcat7/lib folder. If you have used apt-get install tomcat7 command for installing your container.

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CATALINA_HOME and Tomcat's HOME is usually the same:

CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat7
CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat7
CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat7/temp

CATALINA_HOME/lib is therefore /usr/share/tomcat7/lib

To be sure, search for bootstrap.jar. This file is located in $CATALINA_HOME/bin/

More details here

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libs

$ tree /usr/share/tomcat7
/usr/share/tomcat7
├── bin
│   ├── bootstrap.jar
│   ├── catalina.sh
│   ├── catalina-tasks.xml
│   ├── configtest.sh
│   ├── daemon.sh
│   ├── digest.sh
│   ├── setclasspath.sh
│   ├── shutdown.sh
│   ├── startup.sh
│   ├── tomcat-juli.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-juli.jar
│   ├── tool-wrapper.sh
│   └── version.sh
├── defaults.md5sum
├── defaults.template
├── lib
│   ├── annotations-api.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-annotations-api-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── catalina-ant.jar -> ../../java/catalina-ant-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── catalina-ha.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-catalina-ha-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── catalina.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-catalina-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── catalina-jmx-remote.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-catalina-jmx-remote-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── catalina-tribes.jar -> ../../java/catalina-tribes-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── commons-dbcp.jar -> ../../java/commons-dbcp.jar
│   ├── commons-pool.jar -> ../../java/commons-pool.jar
│   ├── el-api.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-el-api-2.2.jar
│   ├── jasper-el.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-jasper-el-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── jasper.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-jasper-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── jsp-api.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-jsp-api-2.2.jar
│   ├── servlet-api.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-servlet-api-3.0.jar
│   ├── tomcat7-websocket.jar
│   ├── tomcat-api.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-api-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── tomcat-coyote.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-coyote-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── tomcat-i18n-es.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-i18n-es-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── tomcat-i18n-fr.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-i18n-fr-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── tomcat-i18n-ja.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-i18n-ja-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── tomcat-jdbc.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-jdbc-7.0.68.jar
│   ├── tomcat-util.jar -> ../../java/tomcat-util-7.0.68.jar
│   └── websocket-api.jar
├── logrotate.md5sum
└── logrotate.template

2 directories, 38 files

webapps

$ tree /var/lib/tomcat7/
/var/lib/tomcat7/
├── common
│   └── classes
├── conf -> /etc/tomcat7
├── logs -> ../../log/tomcat7
├── server
│   └── classes
├── shared
│   └── classes
├── webapps
│   ├── ROOT
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   └── META-INF
│   │       └── context.xml
└── work -> ../../cache/tomcat7

and config

tree /etc/tomcat7/
/etc/tomcat7/
├── Catalina
│   └── localhost
│       ├── docs.xml
│       ├── examples.xml
│       ├── host-manager.xml
│       └── manager.xml
├── catalina.properties
├── context.xml
├── logging.properties
├── policy.d
│   ├── 01system.policy
│   ├── 02debian.policy
│   ├── 03catalina.policy
│   ├── 04webapps.policy
│   ├── 10examples.policy
│   └── 50local.policy
├── server.xml
├── tomcat-users.xml
└── web.xml
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