FileNotFound exception when launching an empty WebSphere server

Question

There was no project deployed to the Websphere server, and I have yet to enable security feature on the WebSphere Server 7.0.

Could it be from previous attempts to create a server? I've not been successful. The directory C:\myworkspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp1\ does not exist because I deleted tmp1 folder in an attempt to clean my server environment. Repeat deleted and reinstalling the server does not help.

Here's the stacktrace:

[11/24/14 11:57:00:930 EST] 0000000e ApplicationMg E   WSVR0100W: An error occurred initializing, MyApplication
org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.commonarchivecore.internal.exception.NestedJarException: IWAE0008E An error occurred reading MyApplication.war from C:\myWorkspace
Stack trace of nested exception:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\myworkspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp1\MyApplication (The system cannot find the path specified.)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:112)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:72)
      at