While the latter is not really recommended it can be used as a temporary work around. A few people have been able to make this work with a few minor problems. FrontPage on the other hand expects to find certain things in these files so you should make sure to have them. Make sure that your DocumentRoot directive is in the srm.conf file. Stronghold tends to put this in the httpd.conf file.
All directive is in the access.conf file.
StrongHold tends to put these in the httpd.conf file. If you are using virtual webs make sure that they are not contained in the directory which is pointed to by the DocumentRoot directive. Since the ScriptAlias patch is not included with StrongHold Apache you will need to add the ScriptAlias lines for each per-user web that you are adding. For more information . After you have done these then re-install using the FrontPage WPP Kit.