Microsoft KB Archive/278432

= How to Interpret FrontPage Author.log Files =

Article ID: 278432

Article Last Modified on 8/22/2007

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 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions

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SUMMARY
The FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions contain a logging option that allows Web administrators to obtain detailed information about FrontPage authoring actions. This article describes the information that can be found in the log files that the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions create.



MORE INFORMATION
When FrontPage author logging is turned on, the FrontPage Server Extensions create a log file to record all authoring operations. The log file is named Author.log in the _vti_log directory of a Web site. You can use this logging information to track authoring operations on a server, to troubleshoot authoring problems, and to track possible malicious authoring behavior.

A FrontPage 2000 Author.log file can resemble the following example. Descriptions of the data found in this log file can be found in the Log File Entries section of this article.

[01 Jan 2000 15:35:34 -0600] 192.168.1.10 IUSR_SERVERNAME - [server version] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:35 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username / [open service] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:35 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username / [list documents] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:37 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [open service] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:37 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [list documents] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:38 -0600] 192.168.1.10 IUSR_SERVERNAME - [url to web url] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:38 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [open service] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:39 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [list documents] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:42 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [set service meta-info] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:42 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [list themes] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:43 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [list documents] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:45 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [get document] default.htm [01 Jan 2000 15:35:46 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [list documents] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:46 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [get document] _borders/top.htm [01 Jan 2000 15:35:46 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [get web struct] - [01 Jan 2000 15:35:48 -0600] 192.168.1.10 DOMAIN\username /subweb [put document] default.htm

The following table lists the information that is found in each of the columns in an Author.log file.

The following table lists the FrontPage 2000 RPC methods that are available. These methods are listed in the &quot;Operation Performed&quot; column of an Author.log file. See the Log File Entries section of this article for more information.

Note This list of methods and their accompanying descriptions is from the &quot;Server Extensions Client/Server Protocol&quot; documentation. See the References section for more information.