| 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 |
|
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. |
| |
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. |
| |
Access.cnf |
Contains HTTP server-specific access
control information |
| |
Administrators.pwd |
Encrypted names and passwords of
administrators. On Netscape servers only. |
| |
Authors.pwd |
Encrypted names and passwords of authors.
On Netscape servers only. |
| |
Bots.cnf |
Used for custom FrontPage-based components
(WebBots) created using the FrontPage SDK. |
| |
Botinfs.cnf |
Custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots)
information listing |
| |
Deptodoc.btr |
Dependency database for the web. |
| |
Doctodep.btr |
Dependency database for the web. |
| |
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. |
| |
Linkinfo.cnf |
Back links for URLs not in the current
web. |
| |
Service.cnf |
Contains meta-information about the
web. |
| |
Service.grp |
Lists the members of the Administrator and
Author groups. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers. |
| |
Service.pwd |
Contains the encrypted password files. Not
used on IIS and WebSite servers. |
| |
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. |
| |
Services.cnf |
Contains the list of subwebs. |
| |
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. |
| |
Service.lck |
Lock file to keep web resources from being
accessed simultaneously. Should be a zero-byte file at idle
time. |
| |
Structure.cnf |
Contains FrontPage-extended web
navigational information storage. |
| |
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. |
| |
Users.pwd |
Encrypted names and passwords of end-users.
On Netscape servers only. |
| |
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. |
| |
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 |
|
Contains image map files. |
| _vti_script |
*.idq |
Query files created by the FrontPage Search
component when using Index Server on IIS. |
| _vti_txt |
|
This folder contains text indexes for the
WAIS search engine only. It is not used by Index Server on
IIS. |
| fpdb |
|
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. |