For example, if inside of your webapps directory, you had symbolic links leading elsewhere (but I don't think that under Windows this works).
*Inside webapps directory, we do not have any symbolic links.* In your normal setup, is there any front-end system in front of Tomcat, or do clients always access Tomcat directly ? *There is no front end for the application. Clients access Tomcat directly. * Thanks & Regards, Aditi