diff --git a/apache2/mod_security2.c b/apache2/mod_security2.c
index 73e424e59..ad89a3b19 100644
--- a/apache2/mod_security2.c
+++ b/apache2/mod_security2.c
@@ -1276,6 +1276,21 @@ static int hook_log_transaction(request_rec *r) {
         arr = apr_table_elts(r->headers_out);
     }
 
+#if defined(VERSION_IIS)
+    /* The IIS connector never copies the response status into the
+     * request_rec; r->status is only set in OnSendResponse. A request
+     * that was superseded by an internal redirect (e.g. the IIS default
+     * document rewrite of "/" to "/iisstart.htm") never reaches
+     * OnSendResponse, so its r->status stays 0 and the audit log F part
+     * would record a bogus "500 Internal Server Error"
+     * (ap_get_status_line(0)). Skip audit logging for such transactions
+     * unless they were actually intercepted.
+     */
+    if (r->status == 0 && msr->was_intercepted == 0) {
+        return DECLINED;
+    }
+#endif
+
     msr->r = r;
     msr->response_status = r->status;
     msr->status_line = ((r->status_line != NULL)
diff --git a/iis/mymodule.cpp b/iis/mymodule.cpp
index dfaee4b2c..283d2172f 100644
--- a/iis/mymodule.cpp
+++ b/iis/mymodule.cpp
@@ -450,6 +450,22 @@ CMyHttpModule::OnSendResponse(
 	pHttpResponse = pHttpContext->GetResponse();
 	pRawHttpResponse = pHttpResponse->GetRawHttpResponse();
 
+	// here we must transfer response status
+	// otherwise r->status stays 0 and the audit log records a
+	// bogus "500 Internal Server Error" (ap_get_status_line(0))
+	// for every transaction
+	//
+	if(pRawHttpResponse->StatusCode > 0)
+	{
+		r->status = pRawHttpResponse->StatusCode;
+
+		if(pRawHttpResponse->pReason != NULL && pRawHttpResponse->ReasonLength > 0)
+		{
+			r->status_line = apr_psprintf(r->pool, "%d %s", r->status,
+				ZeroTerminate(pRawHttpResponse->pReason, pRawHttpResponse->ReasonLength, r->pool));
+		}
+	}
+
 	// here we must add handling of chunked response
 	// apparently IIS 7 calls this handler once per chunk
 	// see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4385249/how-to-buffer-and-process-chunked-data-before-sending-headers-in-iis7-native-mod