Hi, I have developed a servlet (a hit counter servlet, in fact) that I intend to use in several pages in my website.
Since it is a servlet, I think the best (perhaps the only?) way to invoke it from an html web page is to embed some jsp code in them, in this way: <jsp:include page="/hitscounter/servlet/hitscounter" flush="true"> <jsp:param name="target" value="index" /> </jsp:include> Here, the parameter "target" stands for the page being visited. Changing this parameter I can perform the counting on different pages (I keep different count files, the names of these are the value of the target parameter). So the idea is to paste the previous snippet of jsp code in each page I want to be tracked. Therefore, my html pages turn to jsp pages (with a .jsp extension) Well, obviously my web site has a hierarchical structure. So we have html (some of them, now "would be" jsps) files spread across a tree that is not located under the umbrella of tomcat contexts. On the other side, the servlet is located under webapps/hitscounter. Well this is as (I think) it should be. Well, since TOMCAT does not process jsps when they are not located in a registered context, my jsps are not found when I navigate through my website. For instance, if I change my homepage from index.html to index.jsp, I get a directory listing instead of the home page when I point my browser to my home address. Or if I directly type the address, that is, http://www.ideg.es/index.jsp I get a page not found error (HTTP 404). If the set of pages I would keep track of (counting hits, I mean) would be small, I would locate all these in a directory managed by tomcat. But this is not the case! My website, in spite of its small size, is still big, so I prefer to keep the actual directory hierarchy and leave tomcat in the place it is. Perhaps the solution is to define the root of my website as a tomcat context (is it?). If so, tell me how, please! I have seen that a root context is defined in the conf files but I suppose that this "root" (/) stands for the root tomcat's directory (I'm a complete newbie, so I'm rather lost!) Please, send your answer not only to the list but also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have subscribed today to this list but received no messages yet, so I'm not sure whether my subscription has been correctly processed. Thank you VERY MUCH for your time and interest. Regards, Jose. P.S.: Perhaps I'm not cute enough, but I tried to solve the problem by myself browsing the list archive without success.