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How to use Django with Daphne
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:pypi:`Daphne <daphne>` is a pure-Python ASGI server for UNIX, maintained by
members of the Django project. It acts as the reference server for ASGI.

Installing Daphne
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You can install Daphne with ``pip``:

.. code-block:: shell

    python -m pip install daphne

Running Django in Daphne
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When Daphne is installed, a ``daphne`` command is available which starts the
Daphne server process. At its simplest, Daphne needs to be called with the
location of a module containing an ASGI application object, followed by what
the application is called (separated by a colon).

For a typical Django project, invoking Daphne would look like:

.. code-block:: shell

    daphne myproject.asgi:application

This will start one process listening on ``127.0.0.1:8000``. It requires that
your project be on the Python path; to ensure that run this command from the
same directory as your ``manage.py`` file.

.. _daphne-runserver:

Integration with ``runserver``
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Daphne provides a :djadmin:`runserver` command to serve your site under ASGI
during development.

This can be enabled by adding ``daphne`` to the start of your
:setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` and adding an ``ASGI_APPLICATION`` setting pointing
to your ASGI application object::

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        "daphne",
        ...,
    ]

    ASGI_APPLICATION = "myproject.asgi.application"