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index.html hits my servlet!

 
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hi. my question is how do i configure web.xml or tomcat so that when my index.html page is hit my hitcounter servlet is hit. i don't want a free one and i don't want any images on my website so i don't want jsp. this is just a simple count of how many times index.html(static page) is hit and i will save in a txt or database. thank u
 
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Just make some sort of index Servlet that does the counting, then redirect to the index.html page
Or even better: always use the welcome servlet the requested page, so you can also count reloads.
What you basicly have to do is thus making the servlet the index page ...
BTW, I think you've got something wrong about JSP ... Actually JSPs and servlets are exeactly the same when executed ... The JSP/Servlet engine first transforms a JSP into a servlet, compiles it and then uses it ... or I just misunderstood your line about the jsp and the image ...
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thanks for responding. i didn't quite understand but i have tried sendRedirect("/index.html") with the hit servlet being what is first hit but i did not have it set up right because it was an infinite loop. could u elaborate plz? i could turn my entire home page into a template but then that would leave all the links screwy to the rest of my static pages which i could go in and fix everyone of them but there should be a way to just have the servlet hit while my index.html is hit. i am playing with the filter technique so maybe this will do it. anyhow if u have more suggestions i am open. thank u. btw the redirect method seems to be the best way if i can just keep it from looping (just set up where the hit servlet is the first "thing" hit then just sendRedirect("index.html") and it is done.
 
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