I finally got to deploy the openmrs.war in tomcat but no user interface installed. I downloaded the reference modules and copied it to application data/openmrs/modules and restarted tomcat service but I still get the same message that no user interface module displayed. Confused here
using OpenMRS SDK, you can install the reference application quickly. Give it a try. https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+SDK
Regards, Jude Niroshan