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Laravel Dusk v7.x and Github Actions Issues from Error to Success [Linux]

Here are all of the issues and their solutions that I"ve faced during setting up Laravel dusk locally and also on Github Actions pipeline.

Dusk Version 7.x

Php 8.0

  1. On php artisan dusk I got this error Error.

    RuntimeException: Invalid path to Chromedriver [/var/www/path/vendor/laravel/dusk/src/Chrome/../../bin/chromedriver-linux]. Make sure to install the Chromedriver first by running the dusk:chrome-driver command

FIX : 1st ->

2nd ->

if you still got the same issue try these,

1st ->

Try adding port like the image below in the DuskTestCase.php (9515 it's default port).

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2nd ->

Try adding '--no-sandbox' in "DuskTestCase.php" inside driver function

 protected function driver(): RemoteWebDriver
{
    $options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments(collect([
        $this->shouldStartMaximized() ? '--start-maximized' : '--window-size=1920,1080',
    ])->unless($this->hasHeadlessDisabled(), function (Collection $items) {
        return $items->merge([
            '--disable-gpu',
            '--headless=new',
            '--no-sandbox' //Here--------------------
        ]);
    })->all());

    return RemoteWebDriver::create(
        env('DUSK_URL') && env('DUSK_PORT') ?  env('DUSK_URL').':'.env('DUSK_PORT') : 'http://127.0.0.1:9515',     //Here--------------------
        DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability(
            ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options
        )
    );
}
  1. Error running php artisan dusk

Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\Internal\WebDriverCurlException: Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {"capabilities":{"firstMatch":[{"browserName":"chrome","goog:chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1920,1080"]}}]},"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome","platform":"ANY","goog:chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1920,1080"]}}}

FIX :

This error occurs when Chrome Driver is not running

Now you need to run Chrome Driver, Follow below steps

This should run the chrome driver on port 9515 as you can see on this SS.

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If it is still not running then you can try installing ChromeDriver for linux manually by running following commands

LATEST_CHROMEDRIVER_VERSION=$(curl -s https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE)

wget -O chromedriver.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$LATEST_CHROMEDRIVER_VERSION/chromedriver_linux64.zip

unzip chromedriver.zip

sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin/

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

rm chromedriver.zip   //just for cleaning

After installation, you can start ChromeDriver on a specific port (e.g., 9515) with:

chromedriver --port=9515

Note : You need to Install Chrome for linux too and also make sure that both has compatible Versions with each other.

Keep the Chrome terminal open and open new terminal and hit

php artisan ser

Make sure you sets up .env file properly make sure it atleast exists these :

APP_ENV=local
APP_URL=http://localhost:8000
SESSION_DRIVER=file
SESSION_LIFETIME=120

Note : session driver in very important when you use. ->loginAs($user) In your test cases. If you want to make sure that if user is authenticated and successfully logged in you can use this ->assertAuthenticated() to make sure the sessions are successfully working.

Also if you are using file session driver , make sure that Application has proper permissions.

Here is the github Pipeline yml code that runs successfully on my github actions.

- name: Run Tests
        env:
          DB_DATABASE: db_test
          DB_USERNAME: root
          DB_PASSWORD: root
        run: |
          php artisan key:generate --force
          php artisan test

      - name: Install Dusk
        run: |
          php artisan dusk:install && rm tests/Browser/ExampleTest.php

      - name: Permissions for Chrome Driver
        run: |
          chmod -R 0755 vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/

      - name: Renaming Chrome chromedriver-linux64 to chromedriver-linux
        run: |
          mv vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux64 vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux

      - name: Detect Chrome Driver
        run: |
          php artisan dusk:chrome-driver --detect

      - name: Start Chrome Driver
        run: ./vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux/chromedriver --port=9515 &

      - name: Run Laravel Server
        run: |
          php artisan serve --no-reload &

      - name: Wait for Server
        run: sleep 5

      - name: Run Dusk Tests
        env:
          APP_URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000
        run: |
          php artisan dusk --testdox --without-tty --ansi

For debugging pipeline you can add these lines in yml for logs checking.

Clearing the logs , it should be placed before php artisan dusk ,

  - name: Clear Laravel Logs
    run: | 
      echo "" > storage/logs/laravel.log
      cat storage/logs/laravel.log

Just add it at the end or after php artisan dusk command.

   - name: Capture Logs if Tests Fail
      if: failure()
      run: cat storage/logs/laravel.log

Now run your dusk tests or Pipeline , I hope this helps. Thanks.

Solution

  • This works for me

    Got to this path vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux64 
Rename this "chromedriver-linux64" -> "chromedriver-linux"

    This works locally for the pipeline this solves the issue

    APP_ENV=local
APP_URL=http://localhost:8000
SESSION_DRIVER=file
SESSION_LIFETIME=120

    Also I did rename too , "chromedriver-linux64" -> "chromedriver-linux"