Where are Frontpage counter logs kept?

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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.
 
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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|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.
 
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
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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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