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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<!-- app configuration for web2py on IIS -->
+<configuration>
+  <appSettings>
+    <add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="gluon.main.wsgibase" />
+    <add key="WSGI_RESTART_FILE_REGEX" value=".*((routes\.py)|(\.config))$" />
+  </appSettings>
+  <system.webServer>
+    <rewrite>
+      <rules>
+        <clear />
+        <rule name="static" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
+          <match url="^(\w+)/static(?:/_[\d]+\.[\d]+\.[\d]+)?/(.*)$" />
+          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
+          <action type="Rewrite" url="applications/{R:1}/static/{R:2}" logRewrittenUrl="false" />
+        </rule>
+        <rule name="web2py_app" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
+          <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
+          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
+          <action type="Rewrite" url="handler.web2py/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
+        </rule>
+      </rules>
+      <outboundRules>
+        <rule name="static_version_cache_control" preCondition="static_version">
+          <match serverVariable="RESPONSE_Cache-Control" pattern=".*" />
+          <action type="Rewrite" value="max-age=315360000" />
+          <conditions>
+          </conditions>
+        </rule>
+        <rule name="static_version_Expires" preCondition="static_version">
+          <match serverVariable="RESPONSE_Expires" pattern=".*" />
+          <action type="Rewrite" value="Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:59:59 GMT" />
+        </rule>
+        <preConditions>
+          <preCondition name="static_version">
+            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="(\w+)/static(?:/_[\d]+\.[\d]+\.[\d]+)?/(.*)$" />
+          </preCondition>
+        </preConditions>
+      </outboundRules>
+    </rewrite>
+    <handlers>
+      <!-- replace SCRIPT_PROCESSOR with the configured handler for python -->
+      <add name="Python_via_FastCGI" path="handler.web2py" verb="*" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="SCRIPT_PROCESSOR" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
+    </handlers>
+  </system.webServer>
+</configuration>
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