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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+  <system.webServer>
+  <!-- Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory. -->
+    <directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
+    <rewrite>
+      <rules>
+        <rule name="Protect files and directories from prying eyes" stopProcessing="true">
+          <match url="\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|test|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl|svn-base)$|^(\..*|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$" />
+          <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" subStatusCode="0" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Access is forbidden." />
+        </rule>
+        <rule name="Force simple error message for requests for non-existent favicon.ico" stopProcessing="true">
+          <match url="favicon\.ico" />
+          <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="404" subStatusCode="1" statusReason="File Not Found" statusDescription="The requested file favicon.ico was not found" />
+        </rule>
+        <!-- Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'. -->
+        <rule name="Short URLS" stopProcessing="true">
+          <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
+          <conditions>
+            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
+            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
+            <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/favicon.ico$" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
+          </conditions>
+          <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?q={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
+        </rule>
+      </rules>
+    </rewrite>
+
+    <httpErrors>
+      <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
+      <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/index.php" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
+    </httpErrors>
+
+    <defaultDocument>
+     <!-- Set the default document -->
+      <files>
+        <remove value="index.php" />
+        <add value="index.php" />
+      </files>
+    </defaultDocument>
+  </system.webServer>
+</configuration>
+