Django: Accessing database on different server: "The fastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout"

By default the activity timeout is set to 30 secs. you need to increase it

Step 1 : Click on the server name in IIS,

Step 2 : Select FastCGI Settings

Step 3 : Click the FastCGI application that is used. Under Process Model increase the Activity Timeout to a higher value and restart the server

If the uploaded file is large and you encounter request timeout issue, look into this : Django on IIS: Debugging IIS Error due to FastCGI request timeout on large file upload.

Based on your web.config file, i have added a fastcgi section, please try the below configuration.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
 
  <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="On" />
        <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="100485760" requestValidationMode="2.0" executionTimeout="3600" maxQueryStringLength="18192" />
</system.web>
  <system.webServer>
  <fastCgi>
     <application fullPath="C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py"
         activityTimeout="3600"
         requestTimeout="604800">
     </application>
    </fastCgi>
    <handlers>
      <add name="Python FastCGI" 
      path="*" 
      verb="*" 
      modules="FastCgiModule" 
      scriptProcessor="C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py" 
      resourceType="Unspecified" 
      requireAccess="Script" />
    </handlers>
    <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed"></httpErrors>
  </system.webServer>
 
  <security>
        <requestFiltering>
            <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="4294967295" />
        </requestFiltering>
    </security>
 
  <appSettings>
    <add key="PYTHONPATH" value="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\pd_videowebapp" />
    <add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="pd_videowebapp.wsgi.application" />
    <add key="DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" value="pd_videowebapp.settings" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>