Mat: I have reported this issue to Netgear:
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?p=263707
But as you can see without any help or reply. I also opened a ticket through the official support channel with no outcome. They used the "delay until customer gives up" tactic. They succeeded: I gave up and returned the router for a refund.
My recommendation if you have a problem with Netgear, don't was...
Dave: What a ridiculous hack for what should be a simple 302 or 301 redirect with the scheme changed only.
Absurd.
Upgrade to Apache....
John: For those who are still getting errors when trying to register cdonts.dll, if your OS is 64-bit, you have to copy cdonts.dll into C:\Windows\SysWOW64 instead of C:\Windows\System32, and then run "regsvr32 cdonts.dll" from inside that folder. That's what worked for me on Windows 2008 64-bit....
John Dykstra: Thanks. I had used the simpler interface to add program and added the 'interface' instead of the server....
admin: an htaccess file is usually for sites hosted on Apache. The file equivalent the the htaccess in IIS is the web.config file. If you are editing an htaccess file for a site hosted on IIS, then that is most probably the root cause of your issue.
For more information on htaccess vs. web.config, check this link out:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/...