Use web.config with php

i have windows hosting and website is in php. So i asked the hosting company where i can find the .htaccess file. and they said there is no .htaccess file in windows hosting i have to use web.config file to do website configuration.

I tried this simple code on my web.config but i got 500 - Internal server error.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
  </system.web>
  <rewrite>
    <rule name="rule 1c" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^([a-zA-Z]+)$"  />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="/index.php?category={R:1}"  appendQueryString="true" />
    </rule>
  </rewrite>
</configuration>

Code (markup):

 

Looks like your XML syntax is incorrect give this a try:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
    <rule name="rule 1c" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^([a-zA-Z]+)$"  />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="/index.php?category={R:1}"  appendQueryString="true" />
    </rule>
     </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Code (markup):

 

Yes windows doesn't use htaccess, my current web.config is like this, I would like to add url redirection from old url to new old and secondly i want to force site using http:// sitename.com instead of www version. How can i do this? I tried dealing with web hosting provider but they are not helping with this issue.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<clear />
<add value="index.html" />
<add value="Default.htm" />
<add value="Default.asp" />
<add value="index.htm" />
<add value="iisstart.htm" />
<add value="default.aspx" />
<add value="index.php" />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
<handlers>
<add name="PHP" path="*.html" verb="*" modules="CgiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\PHP\php-cgi.exe" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<httpErrors errorMode="DetailedLocalOnly">
<remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
<error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/404.html" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
</httpErrors>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>