Important Files and Directories

Please make changes on files and directories under <cb-installation-dir> only if you know what you are doing! These files and directories impact how codeBeamer ALM works.

• <cb-installation-dir>/bin
  This directory contains startup and stop scripts on Linux.
• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/bin
  This directory contains startup and stop scripts on Windows.
• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/webapps/cb/WEB-INF/classes/general.xml
  This file contains the most important codeBeamer configuration data, for example how to access the database, License Code etc. From codebeamer 9.3 or higher, general.xml is not available. Configuration data is stored in the database.
• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/conf/server.xml
  This file can be used to configure Tomcat.
• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/webapps/cb/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties
  This file configures logging of codeBeamer and used software components.
• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/logs
  This directory contains the codeBeamer log files.
• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/.htaccess
  This file is generated by codeBeamer and used by Apache for Subversion user/password authentication.
• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/acl.svn
  This file is generated by codeBeamer and used by Apache Subversion module for role/account authorization on Subversion repositories and directories.
• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/docs
  This directory contains all codeBeamer documents and attachments. The required disk space depends on the total size of all documents, the number of their revisions, and the size of all attachments.
• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/git
  This directory contains all managed Git repositories. The required disk space depends on the total size of all Git repositories.
• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/hg
  This directory contains all managed Mercurial (hg) repositories. The required disk space depends on the total size of all Mercurial repositories.
• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/svn
  This directory contains all managed Subversion (svn) repositories. The required disk space depends on the total size of all Subversion repositories.