title: Why am I getting "FastCGI process has failed frequently" while deploying a Django application on Windows Server 2012 using IIS
body: <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Bb6i.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Bb6i.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a>I am trying to deploy Django application on Windows 2012 server using IIS.
  my web.config file :</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
      &lt;system.webServer&gt;
          &lt;handlers&gt;
             
              &lt;add name=&quot;Django Handler&quot; path=&quot;*&quot; verb=&quot;*&quot; modules=&quot;FastCgiModule&quot; scriptProcessor=&quot;C:\Users\chinmay_arima\env_resolution\Scripts\python.exe|C:\Users\chinmay_arima\env_resolution\Lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py&quot; resourceType=&quot;Unspecified&quot; requireAccess=&quot;Script&quot; /&gt;
        
      &lt;/handlers&gt;
      &lt;/system.webServer&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>Getting &quot;HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error&quot;.</p>
  <p>Please find the attachment to see the error.</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Django version: 2</li>
  <li>IIS version: 8.5</li>
  </ul>
  <p>I am following the below to link:
  <a href="http://blog.mattwoodward.com/2016/07/running-django-application-on-windows.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blog.mattwoodward.com/2016/07/running-django-application-on-windows.html</a></p>