Folder Structure
The following provides a description of the server's entire directory structure.
On Linux, webPDF is installed in the folder /opt/webpdf. All directories of the server are located in this folder.
In Windows, the /conf, /keystore, /logs, and /temp folders will be found in C:\ProgramData\webPDF. All other directories are located in the installation folder, which is normally C:\Program Files\webPDF.
Deleting or renaming directories may cause server malfunctions or complete server failures/crashes. Changing the content of files may also cause server malfunctions or failures/crashes.
The conf/ and keystore/ folders contain the configuration data for the server. This configuration data should be backed up regularly.
On Windows, the files with the extension *.vmoptions from the program folder should also be backed up, as they may contain customizations.
The logs/ and temp/ directories contain the server’s working data. The working data in temp/ can be deleted if necessary. The temp/ folder is recreated each time the server is started.
The contents of the logs/ folder can also be deleted if you do not want to keep the history logs.
Delete files only when the server is not running.
Directory details
/uninstalled (in Windows only)
Directory with installation data and for the deinstallation of webPDF.
/chromium
The directory contains the Chromium installation which is used to convert HTML content (e.g. e-mails)
/conf
This directory contains the configuration files for the server and for the individual web application components.
/imagemagick
This directory contains the Imagemagick installation, which is used for converting various graphic formats, among other things.
/jre
Includes a reduced and customized Java Runtime Engine (JRE) for running the server.
/keystore
Default directory for the keystore. A keystore file in this directory must be specified by the server configuration.
/lib
The libraries for the Tomcat server.
/licenses
License information for webPDF.
/logs
This directory contains the server log files (ASCII files).
If you encounter problems with the server, please check the log files before trying anything else. All errors are logged there. If the information found there does not help, please contact Support via e-mail and send us the log file for your server.
/officebridge (in Windows only)
This folder contains OfficeBridge, which is used to manage the Office automation used by the Converter web service.
/outsidein
Toolbox for converting any number of file formats to PDF format. The "Converter" web service uses this installation.
/pdftools
Toolbox for the conversion of PDF documents to PDF/A format and validation of PDF/A documents. It is used by the "Pdfa" web service.
/resources
This directory contains resources that the server requires to run the web services. These resources include, but are not limited to, the files used for format recognition and the schema for the web services’ parameters.
/temp
This directory contains temporary files for the servers and the web services.
/templates
Templates and help files for the conversion of different file formats.
/tesseract
Toolbox for OCR processing. It is used by the "OCR" web service.
/webservice
This directory contains the SOAP and REST web service implementation and the portal application.