Jetty won't work: Is there a way to purge it? - jetty

Question

I'm a Jetty newb, but it's making life hell. First there was an Eclipse problem I described in another question. Rather than waste time on it, I decided to just run Jetty from the console. I started off importing a sample Tapestry project and was able to run it fine... the project is on the Tapestry page and is called tutorial1
I began work on my own project then and began introducing new functionality to it. At some point it stopped working. I tried backtracking my project to get it to a working state but every time I requested the home page it would just hang. At this point I still thought it was my fault, though I did think a more graceful error message would have been nice than the it attempting to load for a minute followed by a server timeout error.
I then shutdown jetty and attempted to load up the imported sample project using mvn jetty:run in my tutorial1 project directory. it doesn't work either! When I try going to localhost:8080/tutorial1 or the URL of my project the jetty console does show any output, almost as if it's not receiving the request.
I rebooted my entire machine but that doesn't help. I am not familiar with jetty architecture and am unsure if there is a way I can purge all my files from the jetty web application directory.
Any ideas?
Cliffs Notes:
Downloaded Tapestry Archetype project with maven.
Executed jetty from the command line using mvn jetty:run
Started new project
Executed jetty from the command line using mvn jetty:run
Modified new project
Error occurred, attempted fix and restarted Jetty (Ctrl + C, followed by mvn jetty:run)
Jetty restarted, but did not seem to handle requests for any pages
Tried starting jetty from Archetype project, experienced the same problem

Answer 1

If your project didn't deploy correctly, jetty won't serve any pages (they will either return 404 or some error in the 500s).
Look at the log folder and check if it is getting correctly deployed.