Thank you so much for responding. I love OpenHAB and am so very much impressed. I just have so much to learn to really use it fully.
Here is the error message I am getting. I hope this is enough to help diagnose the issue:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2015-07-03 14:13:24.029 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'myopenhab.persist'
2015-07-03 14:13:34.036 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Refreshing model 'myopenhab.persist'
2015-07-03 14:13:49.689 [WARN ] [e.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler] - /
openhab.apporg.openhab.ui.webapp.render.RenderException: Sitemap 'home' could not be found
at org.openhab.ui.webapp.internal.servlet.WebAppServlet.service(WebAppServlet.java:114) ~[na:na]
at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ServletRegistration.service(ServletRegistration.java:61) ~[na:na]
at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.processAlias(ProxyServlet.java:128) ~[na:na]
at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.service(ProxyServlet.java:60) ~[na:na]
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848) ~[javax.servlet_3.0.0.v201112011016.jar:na]
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:598) ~[org.eclipse.jetty.servlet_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:486) [org.eclipse.jetty.servlet_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1065) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:413) [org.eclipse.jetty.servlet_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:192) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:999) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:117) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:250) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:149) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:111) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:350) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:454) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:890) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:944) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:630) [org.eclipse.jetty.http_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:230) [org.eclipse.jetty.http_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:77) [org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:606) [org.eclipse.jetty.io_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:46) [org.eclipse.jetty.io_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:603) [org.eclipse.jetty.util_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:538) [org.eclipse.jetty.util_8.1.3.v20120522.jar:8.1.3.v20120522]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.8.0_45]