Troubleshooting Websockets with EC2 on AWS using Django

Question

I am using Django-Channels to try to get real time features such as chat/messaging, notifications, etc. Right now, I have gotten everything to work fine on my laptop using t

Answer 1

As described here it's possible to run Django Channels on Elastic Beanstalk using an Application Load Balancer.

In a simplified form, it's basically:

1. Create an ALB
2. Add 2 target groups, one that points to port 80, and one that points to Daphne port, ie 8080.
3. Create 2 path rules. Let the default route point to target group 1 (port 80), and set the second to use a relative path, ie. /ws/ and point it to target group 2.
4. Add Daphne and workers to supervisord (or another init system)
5. DONE! Access Daphne/websockets through the relative url ws://example.com/ws/.