Where are Frontpage counter logs kept?

W

WeAreBorg

I have been having a lot of issues with IISv5.1 on my XP Pro SP2. I have
uninstalled and reinstalled everything a few times. No idea what I did
different last night but I got my Frontpage hit counters working again. But
they are all back to 1.
Where is it kept by IIS on what the numbers should read? I know it is IIS or
Frontpage because anytime I changed a page, I have to use IIS and
"recalculate" to get the hit counter back at the proper number instead of 1.
But now I reloaded IIS, I do not know where those files are that keeps track
of those numbers (I have backups of my webfolder if needed).
Any help would be great. Thank you.
 
T

Tom [Pepper] Willett

In FrontPage, Open your remote web site...Open the _private folder in the
Folders List and right-click the .cnt file for the page the hit counter is
on. (For example index.html will have a file called index.html.cnt). Choose
Open With Text Editor (notepad.exe). There's your page stats on a notepad
file. Make the appropriate changes, and save. (keep the total amount of
digits, just change the ones you want.
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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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|I have been having a lot of issues with IISv5.1 on my XP Pro SP2. I have
| uninstalled and reinstalled everything a few times. No idea what I did
| different last night but I got my Frontpage hit counters working again.
But
| they are all back to 1.
| Where is it kept by IIS on what the numbers should read? I know it is IIS
or
| Frontpage because anytime I changed a page, I have to use IIS and
| "recalculate" to get the hit counter back at the proper number instead of
1.
| But now I reloaded IIS, I do not know where those files are that keeps
track
| of those numbers (I have backups of my webfolder if needed).
| Any help would be great. Thank you.
 
S

Steve Easton

They live in the _Private folder for your web site.
One for each page that has a hit counter.
The file names are pagename.htm.cnt
or pagename.html.cnt as appropriate.
You can open and edit them in Notepad, do "Not" change the number of digits.
( make the string longer or shorter )


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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W

WeAreBorg

You both are AWESOME! I have been searching and posting for two weeks and I
finally come here and within 90m or so I get 2 great answers. This has helped
me greatly. I am going through all my backups for CNT files and adding that
figure back in.
I tried looking at some of these too before posting anything and some were
empty and others had a lot more info and not a single mention of
"FPCountFile". I went through some backups from a month back (instead of a
few weeks) and I did in fact find in CNT files "FPCountFile xxxxx".
I REALLY thank you both! I will post other questions here in the future
knowing that I got great help on my first post. Thank you.
All this because I tried to use Frontpage 2002 extensions instead of the
defaulted 2000s. Things went down hill from that point. You both made my
night!
A blessing your answers have been for me. Thank you. This is a good reason
why backups must be done.
 
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