Manually Localizing FPSE 2002 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
The FrontPage Server Extensions from Ready-to-Run Software, Inc. (RTR), are available and supported only in the English language. But that being said, the localized language files for FPSE 2002 are available for download from Microsoft, and if you're willing to do a little work, you can configure the FPSE 2002 administration pages for your website to be displayed in sixteen different languages. (The specific list of languages is provided later in this blog.)
Please note that this information is being presented "as-is" and is not officially supported by Microsoft or RTR.
Downloading and Installing the Localized FPSE 2002 Files
Download the self-extracting MSGS.EXE page that contains the FPSE 2002 language files from the following URL:
Extract the FPSE 2002 files by double-clicking the MSGS.EXE file and specifying an output folder.
By default, the installation package will install all of the localized files to the FPSE 2002 parent folder that is located at:
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50
If you run the installation package on your server and accept the default path, then all of the languages will be available on your server.
However, if you only want to have one or more specific languages available, you would need to specify an alternate output folder for the extraction process. Under the output folder that you specified, you will see three folders: admisapi, bin, and isapi. Each of these folders will contain several subfolders, each of which contains the files for each of the localized languages. Each language that you want to have available on your server will need to be copied to their corresponding folders under the FPSE 2002 parent folder at:
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50
You may copy all of the localized files to your FPSE directories, or you can select a single language by locating just the appropriate localized subfolders. For example, if you extracted the FPSE 2002 files to your C:\Temp folder and you wanted just the German language files, you would need to select the following folders:
C:\Temp\admisapi\1031
C:\Temp\bin\1031
C:\Temp\isapi\_vti_adm\help\1031
And you would copy those folders to the following paths:
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\admisapi\1031
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\bin\1031
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\isapi\_vti_adm\help\1031
Specifying the Language for an FPSE 2002 Website
Open the service.cnf file for one of your websites in Windows Notepad; this file will be kept in the _vti_pvt folder for a website. For example, for the Default Web Site this file would be at:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\_vti_vt\service.cnf
Choose the language abbreviation for your desired language from the list below. For example, if you were using German your abbreviation would be "de-de."
| Language Description | LCID | Abbreviation |
| Arabic - Saudi Arabia | 1025 | ar-sa |
| Chinese - Taiwan | 1028 | zh-tw |
| German - Germany | 1031 | de-de |
| English - United States | 1033 | en-us |
| French - France | 1036 | fr-fr |
| Hebrew | 1037 | he |
| Italian - Italy | 1040 | it-it |
| Japanese | 1041 | ja |
| Korean | 1042 | ko |
| Dutch - Netherlands | 1043 | nl-nl |
| Portuguese - Brazil | 1046 | pt-br |
| Swedish - Sweden | 1053 | sv-se |
| Thai | 1054 | th |
| Chinese - China | 2052 | zh-cn |
| Chinese - Hong Kong SAR | 3076 | zh-hk |
| Spanish – Spain (Modern) | 3082 | es-es |
In the service.cnf file, locate the vti_defaultlanguage entry and change the value to the abbreviation for your desired language. If this value does not exist, you will need to add it. For example, if you were using the German language the syntax would be:
vti_defaultlanguage:SR|de-de
When you open the FPSE 2002 administration pages for your website, you should now see it in your localized language. (Note: You may need to refresh your browser's cache to see it correctly.)
That's all that there is to it. Once again, please note that the version of the FPSE 2002 from RTR is only supported in English; so if you are having any issues, you will need to change the value of the vti_defaultlanguage entry back to "en-us" before you contact RTR for support.