Question : ISAPI REWRITE PROBLEM.  Getting a 500 internal server error. Need help figuring out why?

Problem after moving Site to new server.

Everything was working perfectly fine on a previous server, running the same IIS7 and Windows 2008. (no apache)  The server was the only thing that really changed.  It was just moved to a new box.

I am guessing I just didn't set something up correctly and missed something in the move.  I am hoping that someone might know what I need to do.

You can see the issue if you go to http://www.compassionforcamden.org/cfcarticles/  and try to look at an article.  You should get a 500 internal server error.  You'll notice it is trying to find the article using isapi rewrite, but it's not finding it.

The folders after cfcarticles don't really exist.  But that previously was fine and how it worked.

I have an httpd.ini file that includes the following:

[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteRule /categories(.*) /categories.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /pages(.*) /pages.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /blogrss(.*) /blogrss.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /blogs(.*) /blogs.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /search(.*) /search.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /authors(.*) /authors.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /articlerss(.*) /articlerss.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /newsrss(.*) /newsrss.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /news(.*) /news.php?$1 [I,L]
RewriteRule /articles(.*) /articles.php?$1 [I,L]

Can you tell me what I might need to update on the server, the website, permissions, etc., to enable this to work again??  

I currently have write permissions set on the entire folder of cfcarticles.

Help???  Please.  I'm going nuts and don't know where to start.

Thanks,

Gary

Answer : ISAPI REWRITE PROBLEM.  Getting a 500 internal server error. Need help figuring out why?

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I wouldn't recomend thier use with servers, as I'd imagine it would limit airflow fairly severly.  They're more designed for protecting knobs from people adjusting them.

What you probably should have gotten was a server with a locking bezel.  Most of Dell's 1U server have a big metal bar that's designed to keep fingers away from things, but still alowing airflow.

Honestly, at this point you best bet is a 'don't touch' postit note, and a webcam to show you who touched something if you have problems.