Purpose of the Tomcat conf folder

This is just for my own confirmation really.

Is the <CATALINA_HOME>/conf folder in Tomcat for configuring Tomcat itself, rather than config开发者_运维技巧uring application-specific settings?

I assume application-specific config files could be put into this folder if I wanted but it's not a good idea partly because it's the wrong place and they wouldn't appear on the classpath, thus meaning that the files wouldn't be accessible using getResourceAsStream().

Is that a good summary of what the folder is and isn't for?

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The conf folder contains all the configurations related to tomcat in the form of xml. We can change the port number of our server inside the server.xml file, which is present in the conf folder by using <connector port="8080">.

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Ok, I'm pretty sure this is correct:

Configuration files and related DTDs. The most important file in here is server.xml. It is the main configuration file for the container.