core: revert to cherrypy for main webserver and use daphne only for app_gw

passbook/root/asgi.py

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-"""
-ASGI entrypoint. Configures Django and then runs the application
-defined in the ASGI_APPLICATION setting.
-"""
-
-import os
-
-import django
-from channels.routing import get_default_application
-
-os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "passbook.root.settings")
-django.setup()
-application = get_default_application()

passbook/root/requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 celery
 colorlog
+cherrypy
 django-ipware
 django-model-utils
 django-redis
@@ -11,5 +12,4 @@ psycopg2
 PyYAML
 sentry-sdk
 pip
-whitenoise
 urllib3<1.25,>=1.21.1

passbook/root/settings.py

@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ CACHES = {
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
-    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'passbook.app_gw.middleware.ApplicationGatewayMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
@@ -239,7 +238,6 @@ if not DEBUG:
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/static-files/
 
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
-STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
 
 with CONFIG.cd('log'):
     LOGGING = {