Yes, the server.log information will provide more clue. From the earlier message, it seems the problem happened when the application was loading in the web container, trying to parse the resource path:
[exec] WARNING: com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.IASDeploymentException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: LifecycleException: javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Parsing error processing resource path
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