Title: No web.config file effects?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# No web.config file effects?

 *  [wdelacruz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdelacruz/)
 * (@wdelacruz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalink-structure-windows-hosting/)
 * My site wasn’t working(500 internal server error) after I changed the permalink
   structure, so I tried a whole bunch of things to try to get it back up. Ultimately,
   I just deleted the web.config file. What effects does this have on the site? 
   What should be in my web.config file if I need it?
 * Im running WordPress on GoDaddy’s Windows Hosting.

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 *  Thread Starter [wdelacruz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdelacruz/)
 * (@wdelacruz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalink-structure-windows-hosting/#post-6176644)
 * My site started working again after I outright deleted the web.config file. What
   effects will not having a web.config file have on the site?

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