Problem with context in server.xml

[Simon Good]

Hi
I'm having problems manually creating a context in my server.xml. If I just dump my generated war file into the webapps directory tomcat unpacks the war and everything is fine, however because I need to delcare some resources for this particular context I have to manually enter the context into the server.xml.
When I declare the context in the server.xml and try to start up tomcat the following error is logged by tomcat:

 Error initializing resources: D:\java\apps\tomcat404\webapps\quickstart does not exist or is not a readable directory

The .war file never gets unpacked the unpackWARs has been set to 'true' so I know that's not the problem. I thought it might be a problem with the resources I've declared but if I remove them I still get the same result when I try to deploy the war file.
Any ideas?

[Simon Good]

No need to reply, I've sorted it.

[William Brogden]

Could you give a short summary of what the solution turned out to be, just for the archives.
Bill

[Simon Good]

I'd incorrectly specified the docbase in the context. When I specified the docbase to be the name of the war file I was trying to deploy tomcat successfully unpacked the war file ie

 docbase="quickstart.war" 

However, that's not the end of it. What I'm now seeing is that the war file (quickstart.war) has been unpacked in the directory specified in the 'Engine' tag. So in the {TOMCAT_HOME}/work/Standalone/localhost directory I now have

quickstart/web-inf/web.xml

quickstart/web-inf/lib/numerous .jar files

Any servlets I have in the web-inf/lib directory are served up ok but none of the jsp files which are present in the war file are being unpacked to the {TOMCAT_HOME}/work/Standalone/localhost/quickstart directory so I can't run them. Something is very wrong and I'm failing to see what it is.
FYI
The Engine tags reads as follows:

 <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0">

The Host tag reads as follows:

<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

The first part of the context reads as follows:

 <Context path="/quickstart" docBase="quickstart.war" 
                 reloadable="true"> 

All suggestions welcome