channels-example | Code accompanying Django Channels | Learning library

I'm trying to learn to use django-channels and have worked through both the tutorial and this multichat example. I am now trying to deploy it on a Digital Ocean droplet using Apache and Daphne.

I have 2 issues:

1. my static files are not getting used (I have run collectstatic)

2. I can only get Daphne working when I type in daphne multichat.asgi:application --port 8001 --bind 0.0.0.0 -v2 rather than using the daphne.service file below

This is my Apache conf file which I hoped would serve the static files:

As practice, I'm trying to deploy Andrew Godwin's multichat example with Django Channels 2.1.1 on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 16.04.4. However, I don't know how to exit the Ubuntu server without Channels' Daphne server stopping.

Right now, almost my entire familiarity with deployment comes from this tutorial, and that's how I've deployed the site. But according to Channels' documentation, I have to run one of these three in production to start Daphne:

• daphne myproject.asgi:application
• daphne -p 8001 myproject.asgi:application
• daphne -b 0.0.0.0 -p 8001 myproject.asgi:application

So, in addition to following the DigitalOcean tutorial, I ran these also. The third one worked for me and the site ran well. However, if I exit shell on Ubuntu, Daphne stops too.

The tutorial has gunicorn access a sock file (--bind unix:/home/sammy/myproject/myproject.sock), and in my research so far I've seen on a few sites published before 2018 that somehow somewhere a daphne.sock file is generated. So, I guess Channels deploys similarly? But I haven't seen any details about how this is done.

How do I deploy the multichat example so I can exit the Ubuntu web server without Daphne stopping?

Update 6 May 2018, 8pm CET:

I tried kagronick's solution below and created a systemd file at /etc/systemd/system/daphne_seb.service:

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In short: I can't figure out how to properly add staff to group so that he can both receive and send messages in the chatroom.

I've read the documentation on layers, groups, and channels. I can't say I'm very clear on the concepts, but I figure a channel pertains to an individual user, a group pertains to a chatroom or its equivalent where users are somehow grouped together, and the layer is the medium through which communication takes place.

Using this understanding, the best I've been able to do has been to add to the join_room(self, room_id) function like this, which is probably completely the wrong thing to do:

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I'm implementing the multichat example and unable to figure out what's causing this error. Here's the full traceback:

I followed this tutorial: https://github.com/jacobian/channels-example

And I got the error in the title, then I cloned the repository above and got the same error.

(If you are trying to clone the repository to test, remember to change the database settings in settings.py, migrate the database, and go into views and change the import haikunator to from haikunator import Haikunator and in the new_room function add the line haikunator = Haikunator() to the beginning of the function so that it will work)

I am using Python 2.7 ad Django 1.10. '

Traceback:

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WebSocket connection to 'wss://api.example.com/ws/' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.

when attempting to connect to my WebSocket via simple JavaScript code (see Multichat for something quite close). Any ideas?

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