[SOLVED] Django Channels Error - Cannot import BACKEND 'asgi

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

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/channels/asgi.py", line 36, in make_backend
"Cannot import BACKEND %r specified for %s" % (self.configs[name]['BACKEND'], name)

channels.asgi.InvalidChannelLayerError: Cannot import BACKEND 'asgi_redis.RedisChannelLayer' specified for default

My settings.py is:

CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
"default": {
    "BACKEND": "asgi_redis.RedisChannelLayer",
    "CONFIG": {
        "hosts": [os.environ.get('REDIS_URL', 'redis://X.X.X.X:6379')],
    },
    "ROUTING": "MyProject.routing.channel_routing",
},
}

Need help in resolving this error.

Solution

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