Yes, this is mainly a Linux setup issue for JBoss 2.4.4/ Catalina - I have read all the threads including the FAQs out there and still have two unresolved issues. So please bear with me for a second here.
JBoss 2.4.3/Tomcat 3.2.3 no problems. '127.0.0.1:8080/jboss' and '127.0.0.1:8080' access work fine.
My problem is around the the JBoss 2.4.4/Catalina 4.0.1 setup. Accessing '127.0.0.1:8080/jboss' works fine. Accessing '127.0.0.1:8080' doesn't.
Now I understand that in various threads to resolve this was adding a new .war or .ear file and specifying a different path like 'test' or taking the Catalina examples and deploy those in a .war file. I tried altering the 'tomcat-test.ear' example or adding my own '.war file'. No luck here, it doesn't seem to deploy them. (Problem 1)
I deleted the 'tomcat-test.ear' file and JBoss seems to be still able to deploy it.
Now when I compare the JBoss/Tomcat against the JBoss/Catalina setup ther are no .war files inside the jboss/deploy-directory necessary in the Tomcat setup to be able to access '127.0.0.1:8080' or '127.0.0.1:8080/examples'.
(Problem 2).
Thanks for any advise.
