Where Do Lawson Files Reside?

Files used by Lawson programs are stored in several directories. The directory names are environment variables that define the paths for the directories. The required directories are designated at installation time. The installation program also creates any required subdirectories in each directory. Other directories may be set as environmental variables for your convenience. The path names attached to these variables must be unique, although different environments can share the same %GENDIR% directory.

Note: These files, directories and environment variables are stored in the application server and not in the database server.

What Is the Lawson Environment Variable Naming Standard?

An environment variable name is shown as %VARIABLE%.

For example, environment variables and subdirectories are shown as:

%GENDIR%\java\jar

%LAWDIR%\ dataarea

GENDIR

%GENDIR% is the directory path in which utilities and other files are stored. Original copies of configuration files are also stored here.


%GENDIR%\bin	Executables
%GENDIR%\system	Server configuration file templates
%GENDIR%\install	Install scripts, logs, and output files created at install time
%GENDIR%\bpm	Files needed for Process Server

Default path

\gen

LAWDIR

%LAWDIR% is the directory path where the product lines and server configuration files are located.


%LAWDIR%\system	Server configuration and log files
%LAWDIR%\`dataarea`	Product line information
%LAWDIR%\`dataarea`	Data area information
%LAWDIR%\bpm	Process Server information

Default path

\apps

LADBDIR

%LADBDIR% is the directory path where the dictionary files are located (data is stored in the RDBMS).

Default path

\DB

LAUNTDIR

%LAUNTDIR% is the directory where user home directories and session log files are located.

A user's home directory is created the first time the user logs in. The name of a user's home directory is based on the user's name and domain. For example, if a user's domain is DOMAINNAME and the user's name is USERNAME, the user's home directory is named DOMAINNAME_USER NAME

Default path

\launt

WEBDIR (optional)

The %WEBDIR% directory is an optional variable you can set for the base directory on the web server in which certain presentation layer directories and files reside. Lawson documentation sometimes uses this term to refer to the web server document root directory, as shown in the following table.


%WEBDIR%\lawson\`MyPortal`	Web server components for Lawson Portal. The location of `MyPortal` is defined at installation time.
%WEBDIR%\lawson\`MyStudio`	Web server components for the Lawson Design Studio. The location of `MyStudio` is defined at installation time.

Default path

DocumentRootDirectory