I am also trying JBoss+Catalina and I get an HTTP Internal Server Error 500 trying to load Tomcat's initial page although I don't get log errors when starting JBoss w/Catalina.

To get more information have a look in
JBOSS_HOME/log/server.log
by default this should display some DEBUG information.

Regards,
Adrian

The test deployment is not in the root context,
nothing is.
Try the following url

http://localhost:8080/jboss

replace localhost with whatever's relevant if you
are not on the same machine.

Regards,
Adrian

Dropping a war file into $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
does not get the web app deployed. Also,
when dropping a war file into $JBOSS_HOME/deploy
results in an exception being thrown by the
J2EEDeployer. Complaining that the web-app
tag can't be found. Note that this works
perfectly with JB/TC version 2.4/3.2.3

$CATALINA_HOME/webapps is for running tomcat/catalina by itself.
Do you want to post the WEB-INF/web.xml from your war?

Regards,
Adrian

It is possible that web-app is not recognized because <!DOCTYPE is missing in web.xml. By the way, it looks like web.xml for interest servlet in documentation-example.zip has <!DOCTYPE ... > missing.

You need something like:

<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd">

> Dropping a war file into $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
> does not get the web app deployed.

To the best of my understanding, in order to deploy a web application it's xxx.war has to be placed in $JBOSS_DIST/deploy directory, not webapps. Tomcat root context and examples are not deployed after install, if you want to deploy them, you can do the following:

For root context:

cd $CATALINA_HOME/webapp/ROOT
jar cvf ROOT.war *
mv ROOT.war $JBOSS_DIST/deploy/.war

For Tomcat examples:

cd $CATALINA_HOME/webapp/examples
jar cvf examples.war *
mv examples.war $JBOSS_DIST/deploy/

> Also,
> when dropping a war file into $JBOSS_HOME/deploy
> results in an exception being thrown by the
> J2EEDeployer. Complaining that the web-app
> tag can't be found. Note that this works
> perfectly with JB/TC version 2.4/3.2.3

See my previous post about <!DOCTYPE (or it can be something else :-))

Cheers,
Alex