Mac OS X Server 2 File Structure Layout

This is a reference for those who regularly poke around in the guts of OS X Server. The file structure has changed quite a bit from the days of Server 1.x. Here's most of it, with a few notes here and there. Below is how the system looks after a completely clean install. As always, this list is not meant to be exhaustive but to point the way to some things that you may be looking for and want to find in a hurry. Many files and lesser directories are left out. directories in bold, links in italics, commentaries in grey, {...} signifies a list of directories, [blue names in brackets] means applications where you might not have expected one.

.Trashes .vol Applications AppleScript Example Scripts Dock Extras Utilities Library Application Support Audio Plug-Ins Components Digidesign VST Sounds Alerts Banks Caches ColorSync Profiles Displays Scripts Desktop Pictures Documentation Administration Services sendmail Aladdin Commands {dc, diffutils, grep, gzip, wget} Help Apple Help Viewer KotoeriHelp -> ... MacOSXServer {English, French, German, Japanese} Services FTPServer Configuration FTPRoot Public -> /Shared Items/Public Users -> /Users Messages Fonts Image Capture Scripts Internet Plug-Ins Java Home -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home Logs AppleFileService DirectoryService PrintService WebServer -> /var/log/httpd Well worth noting new locale WindowsServices Modem Scripts Preferences DirectoryService LogViewer Printers PPD Plugins PPDs QuickTime QuickTimeStreaming AdminHtml {...} Logs Movies Playlists Receipts Receipts of what was installed where ends up in here and can be used to cleanly and easily de-install Screen Savers WebServer Where all your Apache files sit CGI-Executables CGI / Perl scripts go here Documents Default web page location

Network Networked files and programs sit in here Applications Library Servers Users Shared Items Public

System Library Assistants SharedBundles Authenticators CFMSupport BridgeLibraries StubLibraries Caches Classic ColorPickers ColorSync Profiles Scripting Colors Components KotoeriUIServer, WordRegister CoreServices Assistant, Classic Startup, DocklingServer, Finder, Help Viewer, SecurityAgent, Software Update, StartATServer, WindowServer, loginwindow SystemStarter DTDs Displays DisplayServices Overrides Extensions AppleNDRV Filesystems AppleShare Find Fonts Frameworks Image Capture Devices MassStorage, PTPCamera, Type1Camera Java com apple cocoa admin application assistant foundation _private niaccess niinterface preferences misc net protocol archiveresource security util Keyboards MonitorPanels OpenSSL certs lib misc private PHP {Benchmark, Crypt, DB, Date, File, HTML Mail, Net, PEAR, Payment, XML, extensions} Perl {B, CGI, CPAN, Carp, Class, Devel, Exporter, ExtUtils, File, Getopt, I18N, IO, IPC, Math, Net, Pod, Search, Term, Test, Text, Tie, Time, User, auto, darwin, pods, unicode, warnings} Preferences Printers CVs Modules IOMs Libraries PrintJobMgr Contents MacOS Resources PBMs PDEs PMs PPDs Contents Resources Tools PrivateFrameworks QuickTime QuickTime Updater QuickTimeJava Rulebooks Screen Savers ScriptingAdditions ColorSyncScripting, URL Access Scripting Security ServerAdmin Services Sounds Speech Recognizers Synthesizers Voices StartupItems ((all have subdir Resources unless *)) Accounting Apache AppServices AppleShare AppleTalk AuthServer Cleanup ConfigServer CrashReporter Cron DirectoryServices Disks IPServices NFS Network NetworkTime Portmap QuickTimeStreamingServer SSH * SecurityServer Sendmail SystemLog SystemTuning Watchdog * SystemConfiguration SystemResources PrecompLists Tcl (...)

Users Shared (root account) .Trash Desktop Documents Library Assistants Audio Plug-Ins Components Digidesign VST Sounds Alerts Banks Cache Internet Cache ColorPickers ColorSync Profiles Favorites FontCollections Fonts Internet Plug-Ins Keyboards Keychains Preferences Apple Help Prefs tmp Help ByHost Software Update Software Update Cache Printers Screen Savers Sounds Voices Movies Music Pictures Public Drop Box Sites images

Volumes bin cores -> private/cores dev etc -> private/etc

private Drivers ppc cores etc acgid httpd ssl.crt ssl.key users mail streaming tmp (...) var at jobs backups cron tabs db SystemConfiguration dhcpclient leases netinfo local.nibd log acgid httpd webperfcache mail msgs named root Library Fonts Preferences ByHost run pids for system things davlocks proxy rwho spool Faxes appkit lpd mqueue output printing samba tmp (...) vm swap space yp sbin tmp -> private/tmp

usr bin include httpd xml php {TSRM, Zend, ext, main, regex} lib java php build libexec [MiniTerm] emacs (...) httpd local bin samba bin lib codepages private swat var sbin StreamingServerModules StreamingServerModules.disabled QTSSFilePrivsModule Resources tomcat bin classes (...) conf doc (...) lib (...) logs src webapps (...) sbin share aclocal calendar dict system dictionaries in here emacs (...) enscript gnats groff (...) httpd font tmac icons info init tcsh libtool libltdl locale (...) man {man1, man2, ... man8} misc nvram sendmail conf {cf, domain, feature, hack, m4, mailer, ostype, sh, siteconfig} skel tabset vi {catalog, perl, tcl} zoneinfo (...) standalone ppc var -> private/var