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title: "Step 5: Configuring Application Server"
slug: "iobeya-431-on-prem-step-5-configuring-application-server"
updated: 2025-05-15T16:11:34Z
published: 2025-05-15T16:11:34Z
canonical: "help.iobeya.com/iobeya-431-on-prem-step-5-configuring-application-server"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.iobeya.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Step 5: Configuring Application Server

## 1- Upload the iObeya installation directory

1. Connect to the application server with the user account used to run Tomcat.
2. Upload the <**install_folder**> to the server.

## 2- Deploy the iObeya webapp

### Tomcat directory

1. Copy the **ROOT.xml** context file into the path_to_tomcat_directory/conf/Catalina/localhost directory of Tomcat. If these directories do not exist, they should be created manually.
2. Copy the new JDBC drivers into the path_to_tomcat_directory/lib/ directory of Tomcat.
  1. For MySQL: [MySQL: Download Connector/J](https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/)
  2. For MariaDB: [MariaDB: Download Connector/J](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-mariadb-connector-j/)
  3. For Oracle: [Oracle: Download JDBC drivers](https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/jdbc-downloads.html)

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> - Check the iObeya [technical requirements](/product/docs/iobeya-431-on-prem-technical-requirements) to identify which version of the JDBC drivers you should use according to your database server.
> - From our experience, we get better performance with the MariaDB JDBC connector compared to the MySQL JDBC connector.

### iObeya webapp directory

1. Copy the content of <**install_folde**r>/**iobeya**/ into the **docBase** folder.
2. Copy the **log4j2.xml** file into the **log4j2FilePath** folder.