What is the absolute minimum content for web.config based url rewriting?

Question

I'm going to be deploying an app in the near future on an IIS7 server, and would like to use the per-application URL rewriting settings in web.config, but this is not an ASP.NET application, so I have no need for anything superfluous.

What is the absolute minimum I need in my web.config in order to run my application and use URL Rewriting?

Answer 1

After lots of googling and stumbling through various articles, I've found this article, which requires installing a URL Rewrite module (not packaged with IIS7). After that it's pretty simple.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule>
                    <match url="start\.html" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="finish.html" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

I was pretty surprised that an extra download was required -- I thought this functionality was supposed to be baked in (testing on Win7x64). Oh well, at least it works.