Hi all, I'm trying use Channels to add websockets functionality to an existing Django project.
At this stage, my websockets functionality is a simple echo of whatever text is sent by the client. The existing project runs on http://domain.com/, served by Apache+mod_wsgi behind a Nginx front-end proxy. I'm trying to route websockets to http://domain.com/ws/, served by daphne behind the same Nginx front-end proxy. The Nginx config looks like this: # daphne location /ws/ { proxy_pass http://localhost:22222; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; } # apache+mod_wsgi location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:11111; } When I do this, I can connect to the websocket on http://domain.com/ws/, but nothing gets echoed back. Here's what I see from daphne in the console: 2017-09-22 16:52:44,654 DEBUG WebSocket daphne.response.npTbOappnj!BnXbgObcDS open and established 127.0.0.1:43270 - - [22/Sep/2017:16:52:44] "WSCONNECT /" - - 2017-09-22 16:52:44,654 DEBUG WebSocket daphne.response.npTbOappnj!BnXbgObcDS accepted by application 2017-09-22 16:52:52,569 DEBUG WebSocket incoming frame on daphne.response.npTbOappnj!BnXbgObcDS 2017-09-22 16:52:54,539 DEBUG WebSocket incoming frame on daphne.response.npTbOappnj!BnXbgObcDS 2017-09-22 16:52:55,229 DEBUG WebSocket incoming frame on daphne.response.npTbOappnj!BnXbgObcDS 2017-09-22 16:52:55,703 DEBUG WebSocket incoming frame on daphne.response.npTbOappnj!BnXbgObcDS The "WebSocket incoming frame on..." entries were logged each time my WS client sent a message. I thought "WSCONNECT /" looked suspicious, since I'm trying to connect to "/ws", so I tried connecting to http://domain.com/ws/ws/ instead. Sure enough, the echo worked when connected to http://domain.com/ws/ws/, and requests were logged as /ws. So I think the problem seems to be that daphne isn't aware that it's running on a sub-path /ws. I tried using the root-path parameter documented here https://github.com/django/daphne#root-path-script_name but that had no effect. The connections were still logged as / instead of /ws, and nothing gets echoed back. As a test, I reconfigured Nginx to serve the whole site from daphne, eg: location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:22222; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; } The app worked perfectly in that configuration - but I really need this to work alongside mod_wsgi. The docs at https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deploying.html#running-asgi-alongside-wsgi specifically state that this is possible: To do this, just set up your Daphne to serve as we discussed above, and > then configure your load-balancer or front HTTP server process to dispatch > requests to the correct server - based on either path, domain, or if you > can, the Upgrade header. Dispatching based on path or domain means you’ll need to design your > WebSocket URLs carefully so you can always tell how to route them at the > load-balancer level; the ideal thing is to be able to look for the Upgrade: > WebSocket header and distinguish connections by this, but not all software > supports this and it doesn’t help route long-poll HTTP connections at all. I suspect what's tripping me up is the "dispatching based on path or domain means you’ll need to design your WebSocket URLs carefully" bit, but so far I can't see what I'm doing wrong. My project is structured like this: myproject ├── db.sqlite3 ├── manage.py ├── myapp │ ├── admin.py │ ├── apps.py │ ├── consumers.py │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── migrations │ │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── models.py │ ├── routing.py │ ├── tests.py │ └── views.py └── myproject ├── asgi.py ├── __init__.py ├── routing.py ├── settings.py ├── urls.py └── wsgi.py myproject is a default Django project, and myapp is a default Django app, both with the minimum extra bits required for Channels. myproject/asgi.py is: import os from channels.asgi import get_channel_layer os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "myproject.settings") channel_layer = get_channel_layer() myproject/settings.py CHANNEL_LAYERS has this: "ROUTING": "myproject.routing.channel_routing", myproject/routing.py has this: channel_routing = [ # Include sub-routing from an app. include("myapp.routing.channel_routing", path=r"^/ws"), ] myapp/routing.py has this: channel_routing = [ route("websocket.receive", ws_message), ] myapp/consumers.py: def ws_message(message): # ASGI WebSocket packet-received and send-packet message types # both have a "text" key for their textual data. message.reply_channel.send({ "text": 'You said %s' % (message.content['text'],), }) Like I said, this all works great when I serve the entire project from Daphne, but I want mod_wsgi to serve HTTP stuff, as the docs suggest is possible. 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