[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10386: The rewrite rules generated for IIS URL Rewrite Module causes user confusion

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#10386: The rewrite rules generated for IIS URL Rewrite Module causes user
confusion
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 Reporter:  ruslany      |       Owner:  westi    
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.9      
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.8.1    
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  has-patch
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 This is related to #8974. If the IIS web.config file does not exist, the
 rewrite rules XML that is given at the "Permalinks Settings" page contains
 only the rewrite rule, but not all the parent XML configuration tags
 required by IIS. Very often users just take this XML and paste it into an
 empty web.config file and this causes the IIS configuration runtime error
 (HTTP 500 returned).

 The logic should be to check if the web.config file does not exist and if
 the root directory is not writable then provide the complete web.config
 file content, which users can just copy and paste into the empty
 web.config file. See attached screenshot for how it is supposed to look
 like.

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