The important components of the system are located in a folder referred in the following as <font inherit/ ;;inherit;;inherit><STAGESHOME></font> . The tomcat application server used by Stages is located in the tomcat subdirectory of the installation path, referred in the following as <font inherit/ ;;inherit;;inherit><TOMCATHOME></font>.

For example, if you choose the standard path on Windows, then <font inherit/Courier New,Courier,monospace;;inherit;;inherit><STAGESHOME></font> would be <font inherit/Courier New,Courier,monospace;;inherit;;inherit>C:\methodpark\stages</font>, the default <font inherit/Courier New,Courier,monospace;;inherit;;inherit><STAGESHOME​​​​​​​></font> for Linux or UNIX is <font inherit/Courier New,Courier,monospace;;inherit;;inherit>/opt/stages</font>. For the rest of the document, the path names are shown with slashes. Use backslashes for the Windows names.