Laravel Dusk on Centos: Failed connect to localhost:9515; Connection refused

Question

OK, today is the day. I finally started (again) to use TDD.

I notice that this thing called Dusk has appeared. Great, browser testing.

The only problem is that I get this:

Failed connect to localhost:9515; Connection refused

I did chmod 777 on the chromedriver files and still get the error.

My dev server is a Centos vm. Is this the problem?

Edit:

I think I am making some progress:

yum install GConf2

Now I get: cannot find Chrome binary

EDIT

I am back on this now.

php artisan dusk gives me:

Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnknownServerException: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.28.455506 (18f6627e265f442aeec9b6661a49fe819aeeea1f),platform=Linux 3.10.0-327.3.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64)

If I do this:

./vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux

I get this:

Starting ChromeDriver 2.28.455506 (18f6627e265f442aeec9b6661a49fe819aeeea1f) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.

Any ideas?

Mick

Answer 1

Try running: ./vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chrome-linux

If you see: Starting ChromeDriver 2.28.455506 (18f6627e265f442aeec9b6661a49fe819aeeea1f) on port 9515 (or whatever port you are using) Only local connections are allowed. Then it is working. I also had to install the google-chrome binary: How to install 64-bit Google Chrome on 64-bit RHEL/CentOS 7

The other thing to install is Xvfb. Then you can run this command in a new terminal: Xvfb :0 -screen 0 1280x960x24 &

This is supposed to be the way to run this. I however, have not been able to get this to work. I am hoping someone can also add some input here.

Update: I got his to work. Make sure that nothing is running as root.