| Folder |
Files |
Purpose |
| _overlay |
*.gif |
Overlay files for text on GIF and navigation buttons. These files are transparent GIFs that are overlaid on top of button or banner images to build a complete text on GIF or navigation button composite image. |
| _derived |
*.htx, *.gif |
Files that are dynamically generated by FrontPage and that can be regenerated at any time, such as *.htx files created by the Search component and composite text on GIF images. |
| _borders |
Top.htm, Left.htm, Right.htm, Bottom.htm |
Shared border definition files that are included in pages that use shared borders. |
| _fpclass |
*.class |
Compiled Java class files that implement some FrontPage-based features. |
| _themes |
*.gif, *.inf, *.css, *.utf8, *.jpg files for each theme |
Themes storage. Each theme that is applied to a web is uploaded into a uniquely named subfolder of the _themes directory. |
| _private |
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This folder is created in each FrontPage-extended web. It is intended to contain user files that are not viewable by a site visitor. |
| _vti_bin |
Shtml.dll, Shtml.exe
|
FrontPage Server Extensions executable files for run-time functionality. On some servers, these files are not present. |
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Fpcount.exe |
Run-time portion of the Hit Counter component. |
| _vti_bin/_vti_aut |
Author.dll, Author.exe |
FrontPage Server Extensions executable files for authoring functionality. On some servers, these files are not present. |
| _vti_bin/_vti_adm |
Admin.dll, Admin.exe |
FrontPage Server Extensions executable files for security functionality. On some servers, these files are not present. |
| _vti_bot |
|
Used for custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots) created using the FrontPage SDK. This folder contains the implementations of custom components. Custom components installed in these directories are optionally downloaded to the author's machine when that component is inserted by the author. |
| _vti_cnf |
For each HTML page and graphics file in a FrontPage-extended web, there is a configuration file of the same name. |
Each configuration page contains a set of name-value pairs, identifying such things as the last author to edit a page or the editor associated with a file. |
| _vti_pvt |
_x_todo.htm |
Contains the current settings of the To Do list. |
| |
_x_todoh.htm |
Contains the changes to the To Do list. |
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Access.cnf |
Contains HTTP server-specific access control information |
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Administrators.pwd |
Encrypted names and passwords of administrators. On Netscape servers only. |
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Authors.pwd |
Encrypted names and passwords of authors. On Netscape servers only. |
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Bots.cnf |
Used for custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots) created using the FrontPage SDK. |
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Botinfs.cnf |
Custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots) information listing |
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Deptodoc.btr |
Dependency database for the web. |
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Doctodep.btr |
Dependency database for the web. |
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Frontpg.lck |
Root web only. Lock file to keep Web server resources from being accessed simultaneously. Should be a zero-byte file at idle time. With IIS and WebSite servers, this file is located in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\40\Temp, not in the web content area's _vti_pvt directory. |
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Linkinfo.cnf |
Back links for URLs not in the current web. |
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Service.cnf |
Contains meta-information about the web. |
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Service.grp |
Lists the members of the Administrator and Author groups. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers. |
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Service.pwd |
Contains the encrypted password files. Not used on IIS and WebSite servers. |
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Service.stp |
Contains the absolute file-system path to the FrontPage-extended web's Service.pwd and Service.grp files. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers. |
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Services.cnf |
Contains the list of subwebs. |
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Services.org |
File used as the basis for Services.cnf when reinstalling the server extensions, so that subwebs are not created as subdirectories of the root web. |
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Service.lck |
Lock file to keep web resources from being accessed simultaneously. Should be a zero-byte file at idle time. |
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Structure.cnf |
Contains FrontPage-extended web navigational information storage. |
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Svcacl.cnf |
File used to store whether subwebs have unique permissions settings and any IP address restrictions, so that when reinstalling the server extensions the correct permissions settings are reapplied to any subwebs. |
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Users.pwd |
Encrypted names and passwords of end-users. On Netscape servers only. |
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Uniqueperm.cnf |
The presence of this file indicates that the subweb has unique permissions settings, as opposed to permissions that it inherited from the root web. Present only in subwebs. Used on IIS only. |
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Writeto.cnf |
Back links for files that can be written to by users of the web, such as Save Results form handler result files. Files that can be written to by users of the web have a looser security setting than regular web content. |
| _vti_map |
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Contains image map files. |
| _vti_script |
*.idq |
Query files created by the FrontPage Search component when using Index Server on IIS. |
| _vti_txt |
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This folder contains text indexes for the WAIS search engine only. It is not used by Index Server on IIS. |
| fpdb |
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When FrontPage creates a Microsoft Access database as part of the Save to Database form handler, it stores it in this folder. Also, the sample database included in FrontPage is stored in this folder. |
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