difference between wtpwebapps and webapps folder in tomcat

Question

when I run my dynamic web project from eclipse it gets deployed to wtpwebapps. However I want to deploy a war file to tomcat so when I checked here in SO this came up How t

Answer 1

wtpwebapps is an eclipse-specific folder created when you run a dynamic web project on Tomcat within eclipse.

Webapps directory is within the Tomcat home and it's where you copy over your WAR files manually.