Special Microsoft® FrontPage® Directories and Storage Locations

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Microsoft Corporation

Updated April 15, 1999

This appendix lists folders and files that FrontPage adds to each root web or subweb.

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.