JasperReports Server WEB-INF Directory Locations

Installed server

Once you have installed your server, either through a platform installer or any other deployment, the configuration files are deployed in the application server. The location depends on the application server where you installed JasperReports Server. If you used the bundled Apache Tomcat application server, the modified configuration files should be placed in:

<js-webapp>/WEB-INF = <js-install>/apache-tomcat/webapps/jasperserver[-pro]/WEB-INF

After modifying the configuration files, restart the application server to use the settings.

WAR file distribution

When you download the WAR file distribution, you can customize your deployment of JasperReports Server and possibly install it on several machines. You can find the WAR file in the following location:

<js-webapp> = <js-install>/jasperserver[-pro].war

After modifying the WAR file distribution, you need to redeploy it to your application server, as described in the JasperReports Server Installation Guide. But every time you redeploy your modified WAR file, external authentication is pre-configured.

Source code

The JasperReports Server source code contains the XML source of the configuration files. If you maintain other customizations in the source code, you can modify the configuration files for external authentication. The modified configuration files for source code are placed in:

<js-webapp>/WEB-INF = <js-src>/jasperserver/jasperserver-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF

When building the source, these files are copied into the WAR file that you must then deploy into a running application server. See the JasperReports Server Source Build Guide for more information.