Fedora Distribution Structure Documentation

1. Introduction

All of the directories named below are relative to FEDORA_HOME

server: Contains the server configuration, command-line utilities, and policy files.
client: Contains the client classes, libraries, and utilities.
data: The default parent directory for object_store_base, datastream_store_base, and XACML policies.
docs: Contains the licenses, javadocs, and Fedora documentation.
mckoi1.0.3: If the included McKoi database was chosen during the installation (i.e. either a "quick" install or the "included" database was selected as part of a custom install, this will contain the configuration and data for the embedded McKoi instance.
tomcat: If the "quick" option was selected during the installation, this will contain an installation of Tomcat 5.0.28.

server/access: Stylesheets for the default disseminator. All objects in the repository automatically subscribe to this disseminator, which provides methods for listing and retrieving the components of the object.
server/bin: Contains server command-line utilities, including fedora-rebuild, fedora-reload-policies, and validate-policy.
server/config: Contains the server configuration files, including fedora.fcfg, fedora-users.xml, and log4j.properties
server/logs: Contains the server log files.
server/schematron: Files supporting the validation of serialized digital objects.
server/xsd: W3 XML schemas, for reference and validation support.

client/bin: Contains client command-line utilities, including fedora-admin, fedora-convert-demos, fedora-ingest-demos and various batch utilities.
client/demo: Contains sample digital objects that can be used as examples.
client/fedora-client.jar: Contains the classes necessary to run the client applications.
client/log4j.xml: Log4J configuration file for client applications.

data/objects: The default root directory (defined in fedora.fcfg) for the internal storage of Fedora objects.
data/datastreams: The default root directory (defined in fedora.fcfg) for the internal storage of Managed Content datastreams
data/fedora-xacml-policies/repository-policies: The default directory (defined in fedora.fcfg) for repository-wide XACML policies.

docs/license: Contains license documentation for Fedora and third-party licenses and attributions.
docs/javadocs: Javadoc API documentation for Fedora.
docs/userdocs: End-user documentation and tutorials.