Url Rewrite in IIS 7.5 causes Internal server error

Question

I have a web application runs @ Windows 2008 R2, ASP.NET v4.0.

I installed the Url Rewrite Module, and started to use it as shown in the official examples.

My problem starts when the <rewrite> tag is added to the web.config under <system.webServer> - actually when I try to browse to any page under this current application, I get 500 - Internal server error.

This is the <rewrite> block I've been adding:

<system.webServer>     <rewrite>         <rules>             <rule name="test1">                 <match url="^default/([0-9]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />                 <action type="Rewrite" url="default.aspx?id={R:1}&amp;title={R:2}" />             </rule>         </rules>     </rewrite> </system.webServer> 

Answer 1

Just had same error and found a fix. You need to install the module for IIS for URL rewrite. you can dowload it here: http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite

Cheers,