List of Special Files and Directories Maintained by FrontPage

This appendix lists all the files and directories that FrontPage adds to each root web or sub-web.

Folders	Files	Purpose
_overlay	*.gif	Overlay files for FrontPage’s text on GIF and navigation button features. These files are transparent GIFs that are overlaid on top of base 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 that can be regenerated at any time, such as *.htx files created by the FrontPage Search Component (only when using IIS with Microsoft Index Server) and composite text on GIF images (for example, theme buttons and banners).
_borders	top.htm, left.htm, right.htm, bottom.htm	Shared border definition files that are included into pages using shared borders.
_themes	.gif, .inf, *.css files for each theme	FrontPage themes storage. Each theme that is applied to the web is uploaded into a uniquely named subfolder of the _themes directory. Each theme consists of GIF, CSS, and INF files that define the theme.
_fpclass	*.class	Compiled Java class files that implement the Banner Ad Manager and Hover Button FrontPage components.
_private		This folder is created in each FrontPage web. It is intended to contain user files that are not browsable. This feature does not work on IIS servers.
_vti_bin	shtml.dll shtml.exe	Stub FrontPage Server Extensions executables for runtime functionality.
	fpcount.exe	Runtime portion of the FrontPage Hit Counter component.
	*.idq	Query files created by the FrontPage Search component when using IIS with Microsoft Index Server. These files reside in the _vti_bin directory in order to get execute permissions.
_vti_bin/_vti_aut	author.dll author.exe	Stub FrontPage Server Extensions executables for authoring functionality.
_vti_bin/_vti_adm	admin.dll admin.exe	Stub FrontPage Server Extensions executables for security functionality.
_vti_bot		Used for custom FrontPage (WebBot) components created using the FrontPage SDK. This folder contains the implementations of custom FrontPage components. FrontPage custom components installed in these directories are optionally downloaded to the user's machine when that Component is inserted by the user.
_vti_cnf	For each HTML page and graphics file in a FrontPage 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 program associated with a file.
_vti_log		Root web only. Only populated after the web administrator has enabled logging in the frontpg.ini or we<port>.cnf file. When active, an author.log file gets created here logging only FrontPage authoring and administration operations.
_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	On Netscape servers only. Encrypted names and passwords of administrators.
	authors.pwd	On Netscape servers only. Encrypted names and passwords of authors.
	bots.cnf	Used for custom WebBot components created using the FrontPage SDK.
	botinfs.cnf	Custom FrontPage (WebBot ) components 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\version3.0\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 web's service.pwd and service.grp files. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers.
	services.cnf	Root web only. Contains the list of sub-webs.
	services.org	Root web only. File used as the basis for services.cnf when reinstalling the Server Extensions, so that sub-webs are recreated as sub-webs instead of 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 web navigational information storage.
	svcacl.cnf	Root web only. File used to store whether sub-webs have unique permissions settings and any IP Address restrictions, so that when reinstalling the Server Extensions the correct permissions settings are reapplied to any sub-webs.
	users.pwd	On Netscape servers only. Encrypted names and passwords of end-users.
	uniqueperm.cnf	Used on IIS only. The presence of this file indicates that the sub-web has unique permissions settings, as opposed to inheriting permissions from the root web. Present only in sub-webs.
	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_txt		This folder contains text indices for the WAIS search engine only. It is not used by Index Server on IIS.

FrontPage also includes Server Extensions configuration files. See Using the FrontPage Configuration File for details on Server Extensions configuration files naming convention and file locations.

Subsystem	Definition	Affected Stores
Document parsing and attribute discovery	Document parser plus title, base, link extractor	_vti_cnf, link map content (read only) _vti_txt
Document expansion	Bot expansion, themes, borders,URL macros, link fix-up, taking page styles from other pages	_vti_cnf link map service.cnf (read) deptodoc, doctodep structure store (read) bot meta-info (read) _themes content _vti_map _overlay (read) frontpg.ini (read)
Source control	VSS integration	VSS database content _vti_cnf service.cnf structure.cnf _overlay
Structure store	Web structure store	structure store content _vti_cnf trigger dependency recalculation
Access control	Setting permissions on web	svcacl.cnf, access.cnf content web server config (read)
Todo list	Todo list	to do list
File system management	Generic reading, writing, etc. of files	content trigger dependency recalculation _vti_cnf
Meta-info store	Combined meta-information stores	_vti_cnf service.cnf frontpg.ini (read) trigger dependency recalculation
Dependency management	Managing relationships between documents, structure store, time, meta-info, etc.	_vti_cnf deptodoc, doctodep service.cnf (autorecalc bit)
Text indexing/searching	Internal WAIS text index	service.cnf frontpg.ini (read) _vti_txt
Logging	Only author and admin ops	_vti_log
"Open bot" management	Install and execution of open bots	bots.cnf (read) botinfs.cnf (read) _vti_bot (read)
Web server management	Marking folders as executable, readable, etc. Getting URL to file mappings, etc.	frontpg.ini (read) web server configuration
Locking	Internal based, not user driven	_vti_pvt/service.lck