What's the use of tmp, var, bin, conf, system folders in AEM

What's the use of tmp, var, bin, conf, system folders in AEM?

Can I get documents on this?

Thanks!

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Best answer by joerghoh

The short and blunt answer is: If you don't know them, ignore them.

The long answer:

/tmp is for temporary space, which could get recreated on every startup. Do not store data there which should survive a restart.
/var: temporary data, which needs to survive a retart
/bin: shouldn't be there. Typically created by accident, when you hit some servlet bound to the /bin folder, but the servlet is not registered yet.
/conf: That's the place where configuration is stored. Check the documentation of Sling Context-Aware Configuration for it.
/system: That's for the system, don't mess with it.

Jörg

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The short and blunt answer is: If you don't know them, ignore them.

The long answer:

/tmp is for temporary space, which could get recreated on every startup. Do not store data there which should survive a restart.
/var: temporary data, which needs to survive a retart
/bin: shouldn't be there. Typically created by accident, when you hit some servlet bound to the /bin folder, but the servlet is not registered yet.
/conf: That's the place where configuration is stored. Check the documentation of Sling Context-Aware Configuration for it.
/system: That's for the system, don't mess with it.

Jörg

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