Simply point Daphne to your ASGI application, and optionally set a bind address and port (defaults to localhost, port 8000): daphne -b 0.0.0.0 -p 8001 django_project.asgi:application If you intend to run daphne behind a proxy server you can use UNIX sockets to communicate between the two: daphne -u /tmp/daphne.sock django_project.asgi:application If daphne is being run inside a process manager, yo