Getting error message running Django server

Question

I’m not able to run python manage.py runserver. I was able to run python manage.py migrate successfully. I even changed ASGI_APPLICATION = "MyProject.asgi.application" to ASGI_APPLICATION = "routing.application" which didn’t work. Here is the error I get

 show_sunset_warning()
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
March 29, 2025 - 17:52:24
Django version 5.1.7, using settings 'MyProject.settings'
Starting ASGI/Daphne version 4.1.2 development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Exception in thread django-main-thread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/daphne/management/commands/runserver.py", line 29, in get_default_application
 module = importlib.import_module(path)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
 return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 995, in exec_module
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/MyProject/asgi.py", line 12, in <module>
 import arborchat.routing
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/arborchat/routing.py", line 3, in <module>
 from . import consumers
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/arborchat/consumers.py", line 2, in <module>
 from channels.consumer import AsyncConsumer
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'channels.consumer'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python3.12/threading.py", line 1075, in _bootstrap_inner
 self.run()
 File "/usr/lib/python3.12/threading.py", line 1012, in run
 self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
 fn(*args, **kwargs)
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/daphne/management/commands/runserver.py", line 128, in inner_run
 application=self.get_application(options),
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/daphne/management/commands/runserver.py", line 153, in get_application
 return ASGIStaticFilesHandler(get_default_application())
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/corey-james/Arborhub/MyProject/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/daphne/management/commands/runserver.py", line 31, in get_default_application
 raise ImproperlyConfigured("Cannot import ASGI_APPLICATION module %r" % path)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Cannot import ASGI_APPLICATION module 'MyProject.asgi'

Here is my consumers.py, you can see I clearly remove StopCOnsumers and added the line of code you suggested

import json
from channels.consumer import AsyncConsumer
from channels.generic.websocket import AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer
import base64
# Channel consumer for both chat room group
class ChatConsumer(AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer):
 async def connect(self):
 self.room_name = self.scope['url_route']['kwargs']['room_name']
 self.room_group_name = 'chat_%s' % self.room_name
 
 # Join room group
 await self.channel_layer.group_add(self.room_group_name, self.channel_name)
 
 await self.accept()
 
 
 async def disconnect(self, close_code):
 # Leave room group
 await self.channel_layer.group_discard(self.room_group_name, self.channel_layer)
 
 # Receive message from WebSocket
 
 async def receive(self, text_data):
 text_data_json = json.loads(text_data)
 message = text_data_json['message']
 
 # Send message to room group
 await self.channel_layer.group_send(
 self.room_group_name, {'type': 'chat.message', 'message': message}
 )
 
 # Receive message from room group
 
 async def re(self, event):
 message = event['message']
 
 # send message to websocket
 await self.send(text_data=json.dumps({'message': message}))
 
 
# Channel Consumer that consumed events for uploading/receiving image files in the message room
class UploadImageConsumer(AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer):
 async def connect(self):
 await self.accept()
 
 async def disconnect(self, close_code):
 async def receive(self, bytes_data=None, text_data=None):
 if bytes_data:
 # Handles image file chunks (binary data)
 
 with open('image.jpg', 'rb') as f:
 fcontent = f.read()
 await self.send(base64.b64encode(fcontent).decode('utf-8'))
 elif text_data:
 # Handles metadata (text data)
 
 await self.send(text_data=json.dumps({'message': text_data}))
 
 
 async def send_image(self, event):
 image_data = event['image_text']
 await self.send(bytes_data=image_data)

• schwartz721: There's an ImportError halfway through the stack trace that you should address. Make sure StopConsumer is available to import from channels.exceptions
• Blaisemart: You are having an improperly configured error in your traceback error stack. Can you help us with your asgi, static/media files? Have you ensured that your project points to the ASGI_APPLICATION instance in your settings?

Answer 1

I fixed it finally, the problem was that Redis wasn't installed