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FrontPage Maintained Special Files And Directories

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Note: Microsoft FrontPage extensions are no longer available on new accounts, because they are no longer supported by Microsoft.

FrontPage maintains the following special files and directories:

  • _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
  • frontpg.lck – Root Web only; lock file to keep Web server resources from being accessed simultaneously
  • linkinfo.cnf – Back links for URLs not in the current Web
  • service.cnf – Contains meta-information about the Web
  • service.cnf – Contains meta-information about the Web
  • service.pwd – Contains the encrypted password files
  • 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
  • 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