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What is _vti_cnf?

 
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What is _vti_cnf? - 5/16/2001 23:08:00   
I am a web developer who knows HTML thoroughly, but don't know anything about FrontPage!

Here's my question:

On our site's server, in every directory, there are folders titled vti_cnf. What are these? And are they neccessary? All of our pages are created by scratch. Could this be something left over from a time when our site was being published by FrontPage? Or, do these folders have something to do with how our searching is set up? Can I remove them or delete their contents as they just duplicate what is already in that directory.

Here is the code from our search page:

<!--webbot bot="Search" S-Index="All" S-Fields="TimeStamp,DocumentK,Weight"
S-Text I-Size="40" S-Submit="Start Search" S-Clear="Reset"
S-TimestampFormat="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p" TAG="BODY" startspan b-useindexserver="0" --><form action="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/search.html" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="VTI-GROUP" value="0"><p><b>Search documents for: </b><input type="text" name="search" size="40" value></p><p><input type="submit" value="Start Search"><input type="reset" value="Reset"></p></form><!--webbot bot="Search" endspan i-checksum="55671" -->

Any insight at all would be greatly appreciated.

THANKS!

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RE: What is _vti_cnf? - 5/16/2001 13:30:00   
What precisely they do I cannot tell you but they cannot be interfered with if you are using any functions that require FP extensions. I recently found this list of functions which require extensions:

FrontPage created server-side Image Maps

WebBot Confirmation Field component

WebBot Discussion component

WebBot Registration componentr

WebBot Save Results component

WebBot Scheduled Image

WebBot Scheduled Include component

WebBot Search component

WebBot HTML Markup component

WebBot Include component

WebBot Substitution component

Database Results Wizard

Send To Database Form Handler

Nested Sub webs

Lightweight Source Control (Document Check-in/Check-out without VSS)

Categories Component

StyleSheet links to multiple files or ASP files

Confirmation Field

Discussion Form Handler

FrontPage created server-side Image Maps

Hit Counter

Registration Form Handler

Save Results Form Handler

Search Form

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RE: What is _vti_cnf? - 5/16/2001 16:36:00   
If you open the vti_cnf file, inside it will look as though there are identical copies of everything , i.e. web pages, graphics etc, but check file sizes - they are much smaller. If you open what looks like a web page, notepad will open it up and there will be loads of meaningless text. The information contained in them are instructions to the server. For example the one that contains your main home page, will have instructions that can recognise what your host wishes the home page to be called, i.e. index.htm or index.html or default.htm. If you move them, delete them or rename them you could be asking for trouble, although I do know peopple who have done that and luckily FP has corrected it, but not always. And yes, they contain information regarding components that require fp extensions.

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RE: What is _vti_cnf? - 9/23/2005 16:38:25   
I run a big pdf file cabinet on line and made the mistake of trying to maintain it with FrontPage 2002.

Removing the extensions and special files has taken me hours: some could only be removed by the server administrator.

I am now synchronizing with Cute FTP Pro 7.0: which has many many problems of its own.

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RE: What is _vti_cnf? - 9/23/2005 16:39:30   
I know the vti part of the folder name is from VTI, the company that originally created Frontpage.

does that help at all?

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RE: What is _vti_cnf? - 2/20/2006 17:58:15   
_vti_pvt and _vti_cnf are on my desktop. I want to get them off. Where can I move them to?

FP is located in Documents and Settings.


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