Django Channels Error - Cannot import BACKEND 'asgi_redis.RedisChannelLayer'

Question

I have installed Django-Channels but while running the daphne-server I am getting this error given below:

File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chann         


        

Answer 1

Just needed to install 'asgi_redis'. I was assuming that it would have gotten installed by default while installing Django-Channels, but it doesn't. 'asgiref' gets installed by default and not 'asgi_redis'. So to solve this issue, one can just run:

> sudo pip install asgi_redis