Configuration files in Web Server 7.0 are changed from Web Server 6.x to consolidate, enhance, and simplify the existing configuration files. Previous releases of the server stored instance-specific configuration information in the config, alias, httpacl, and userdb directories. Unlike config, which is instance-specific, there was only one alias, one httpacl, and one userdb directory per installation. Previous releases of the server stored instance-specific configuration files in alias and httpacl by incorporating an instance-specific component into the filename (for example, prefixing the filename with the instance name). The configuration files in userdb were shared by all instances, even though the information contained in these files was often instance-specific.
Configuration files from the alias and httpacl directories are moved into config directory. Configuration files from the userdb directory are removed; their functionality is incorporated into the server.xml file in the config directory. These changes consolidate instance-specific configuration information within the instance-specific config directory.