This directory can be copied to someplace within your web space so that you can remotely administer your FrontPage extensions using a web browser. I would not advise you to administer your server in this fashion because of the extra security risks involved. If you do use these scripts, make sure that you have setup authentication for this site when you put it in your server's web accessible space. It would also probably be wise to setup an SSL certificate so that passwords aren't transmitted over your network in the clear.

Here lie the binary distributions of Apache that have been compiled with built-in mod_frontpage support. The two files httpd and httpd.Compat are both compiled versions of Apache with the mod_frontpage module built-in. The latter binary file uses different path names than the first one. Mainly, it uses paths relative to the server root instead of absolute pathnames. Both binaries have been compiled so that the suexec binary must be at /usr/local/apache/sbin/suexec. You can run the programs with the -l option to see what other compiled in modules they use.

The file fpexe.c is the source code to the fpexec executable. There is also a compiled version of fpexec in the _vti_bin directory of this directory. The file called fp-patch-apache_<version>, is the mod_frontpage source code patch against to specified version of Apache.

This directory contains three files. The binary file called fpsrvadm.exe is the program that you can run to install/manage/delete the FrontPage extensions on the root webs and sub webs of the server. Upon running it without any options, it will give you a menu system that will ask you questions, determining what you want the program to do.

The other two files (postinfo.html and _vti_inf.html) are copied when creating a new root web. I don't really know much about them except that they are used by the client and extensions to determine what the hostname is and where certain programs can be located.