django-websocket-redis development server not working - django

Question

I'm working on a Django app that's using the django-websocket-redis app to publish events from the server side.
I've successfully configured a test server using nginx and uWSGI to route both HTTP and WS requests correctly to my Django app, but on my local development environment I cannot get this working.
According to the django-websocket-redis documentation, it's enough to start the Django development server and everything should work fine, but it seems like this is far away from reality.
Here is what I've checked:
redis is running on localhost:6379 and is responding to PING requests
tried to run the server on different ports (80, 8080, 8000) to check if the django-websocket-redis makes any assumption about the development server's port, but nothing changed
searched for solution online, but there is nothing about this topic
On my local environment on the client side I see a 404 error when my app tries to connect to the local WebSocket. My settings.py sets the WEBSOCKET_URL to the correct URL (on test server it's working, but locally isn't).
Anyone has an idea what am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

I've found a workaround to this.
I've modified my wsgi.py to this and it works now:
import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "myapp.settings")
# This application object is used by any WSGI server configured to use this
# file. This includes Django's development server, if the WSGI_APPLICATION
# setting points here.
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
from django.conf import settings
from ws4redis.django_runserver import WebsocketRunServer
if settings.DEBUG:
_django_app = get_wsgi_application()
_websocket_app = WebsocketRunServer()
def application(environ, start_response):
if environ.get('PATH_INFO').startswith(settings.WEBSOCKET_URL):
return _websocket_app(environ, start_response)
return _django_app(environ, start_response)
else:
application = get_wsgi_application()
UPDATE: it's not needed to create a custom management command as I mentioned previously, so I've deleted that part of the answer.