Django Channels over apache server - django

Question

I have a Django project that's working well on my VPS over apache.
after adding Django channels to my project it's working on localhost perfectly but in my vps, my browser logged an error "WebSocket connection to '...' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 404" and the project failed.
according to my googling, I think apache can't support web-socket. but can't find a clear answer and trip for running channels on apache
this is my apache config in 000-default.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
Alias /static /opt/kalameh/static
<Directory /opt/kalameh/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /opt/kalameh/server>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
WSGIDaemonProcess kalameh python-path=opt/kalameh python-home=opt/kalameh/kalamehenv
WSGIProcessGroup kalameh
WSGIScriptAlias / opt/kalameh/server/wsgi.py
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
and this is my wsgi.py
import os
import sys
sys.path.append('/opt/kalameh/')
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "server.settings")
application = get_wsgi_application()

Answer 1

You need to check channels' Deploying section. Be aware the slight differences between channels v1.x and v.2x documentation. Pick up the appropriate one.
As you notice, Apache does not support websocket. So you would need to run a server that exposes websocket - a native ASGI interface server (terminology used by channel documentation). You can use Django's Daphne. Daphne also supports HTTP interface.
So you have two solutions:
Keep Apache delivering your Django's HTTP request + Daphne delivering your websocket (if you go for this solution, the keywords to use to find more documentation are reverse proxy and ProxyPass)
Using Daphne for delivering your Websocket and HTTP (no need of Apache).