Django IIS deployment with HttpPlatformHandler

Using Django Deployment
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I’m trying to deploy my Django app to IIS but the page is just infinitely loading without any error messages. It’s weird. Here’s my web.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="PythonHandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified"/>
    </handlers>
    <httpPlatform processPath="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\one-two-api\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
                  arguments="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\one-two-api\manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:%HTTP_PLATFORM_PORT%"
                  stdoutLogEnabled="true"
                  stdoutLogFile="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\one-two-api\python.log"
                  startupTimeLimit="60"
                  processesPerApplication="16">
      <environmentVariables>
        <environmentVariable name="SERVER_PORT" value="%HTTP_PLATFORM_PORT%" />
      </environmentVariables>
    </httpPlatform>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

The error took a while to come up but it was a 502.3 bad gateway with an error code of 0x8007042b.

2

I was able to setup a Django Website in deployment environment Windows Server IIS following this instruction: Django On IIS.

But it uses python manage.py runserver, where runserver is a lightweight web server for usage on a local development machine only. runserver doc says: do not use this server in a production setting.