Post date: Oct 18, 2013 12:4:0 PM
Upgrading to Windows 8.1, I found that IIS stopped working; the application pool would be stopped under rapid fail protection. The Windows logs indicated:
The Module DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\rewrite.dll failed to load. The data is the error.
Googling this phrase led to a technet solution:
From Control Panel > Programs and Features > IIS URL Rewrite Module 2, right click and choose Repair
Simple solution; long time to find it.