Elusive context path issue

["David W. Brown" <dw...@webitplanet.com>]

Hello Tomcat gurus, I am sure this has shown up a few thousand times but I have just downloaded the TC 5.5 in hopes that my little JSP app I am dreaming up will run on the servlet server. Here is the problem: I cannot get the context path right no matter what and the TC manager just claims: Failed to deploy application at context . I have embedded <echo /> statements all through the build.xml in hopes to catch the culprit. My JSP app is so small it is patterned right after the Hello World (/sample) sample.war file application that comes with TC. I have used the standard on all the configuration: build.xml, web.xml and build.properties (which probably is not necessary). I can only get the following error condition:

Failed to deploy application at context path /inventory

Like the sample.war I only have a single jsp and a (dot).html file. The sample.war file will deploy at: /sample but my inventory.war only fails with the error condition noted above. I cannot seem to control the context path what-so-ever. Ant environment vars follow:

[echo] Using user.home=C:\Documents and Settings\hbd6345
[echo] Using dist.home=C:\Documents and Settings\hbd6345\My Documents\general\dev\inventory/dist
[echo] Using build.home=C:\Documents and Settings\hbd6345\My Documents\general\dev\inventory/build
[echo] Using app.path=/inventory

Any and all remedies, rants or raves welcomed.

Please advise,

David.

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