---
title: "How to use Django with Daphne"
version: 6.0
locale: en
source: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/howto/deployment/asgi/daphne/
canonical: https://djangodocs.dev/en/6.0/howto/deployment/asgi/daphne/
---
# How to use Django with Daphne

[Daphne](https://pypi.org/project/daphne/) is a pure-Python ASGI server for UNIX, maintained by
members of the Django project. It acts as the reference server for ASGI.

## Installing Daphne

You can install Daphne with `pip`:

```shell
python -m pip install daphne
```

## Running Django in Daphne

When Daphne is installed, a `daphne` command is available which starts the
Daphne server process. At its simplest, Daphne needs to be called with the
location of a module containing an ASGI application object, followed by what
the application is called (separated by a colon).

For a typical Django project, invoking Daphne would look like:

```shell
daphne myproject.asgi:application
```

This will start one process listening on `127.0.0.1:8000`. It requires that
your project be on the Python path; to ensure that run this command from the
same directory as your `manage.py` file.

## Integration with `runserver`

Daphne provides a [`runserver`](/en/6.0/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-runserver) command to serve your site under ASGI
during development.

This can be enabled by adding `daphne` to the start of your
[`INSTALLED_APPS`](/en/6.0/ref/settings/#std-setting-INSTALLED_APPS) and adding an `ASGI_APPLICATION` setting pointing
to your ASGI application object:

```
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "daphne",
    ...,
]

ASGI_APPLICATION = "myproject.asgi.application"
```