This pages describes important files and directories that should be used for configuration and backup purposes.

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. The data is stored in the database.

• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/conf/server.xml

This file can be used to configure Tomcat.

• <cb-installation-dir>/config/configuration.properties

This file can be used to configure database connection settings.

• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/webapps/cb/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

This file configures logging of codeBeamer and used software components. Used in codebeamer 9.5 and all lower versions.

• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/webapps/cb/WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.xml

This file configures logging of codeBeamer and used software components. From codebeamer version 10.

• <cb-installation-dir>/tomcat/logs

This directory contains the codeBeamer log files.

• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/access/.htaccess

This file is generated by codeBeamer and used by Apache for Subversion user/password authentication.

• <cb-installation-dir>/repository/access/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.