Running Laravel Dusk on Homestead - facebook

Question

I use Homestead Version 1.0.1 and Laravel version 5.4.16. I setup the Laravel dusk by reading the documentation.
But, when I run php artisan dusk by ssh to my homestead. I got an error like the following
PHPUnit 5.7.17 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
E 1
/ 1 (100%)
Time: 2.52 minutes, Memory: 10.00MB
There was 1 error:
1) Tests\Browser\ExampleTest::testBasicExample
Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverCurlException: Curl error thrown
for http POST to /session with params:
{"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome","platform":"ANY","chromeOptions":{"binary":"","args":["no-first-run"]}}}
Operation timed out after 30001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received
Is there anyway to fix this 😊?

Answer 1

Yes, it can be found on the github pages of Dusk. It is a known issue and they are working to update the next homestead box.
The basic issue is that the homestead box has no visual interface and
that dusk runs a real browser, so you have to install a chromedriver
if you want to use it.
But for now this worked for me:
https://github.com/laravel/dusk/issues/50#issuecomment-275155974
Not included in that post but necessary for me:
make sure you have following permission set cd vendor/laravel/dusk/bin; chmod 775 *
Steps from the github post:
First of all, google-chrome is requried to be installed in guest OS:
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable
Next thing is xvfb:
$ sudo apt-get install -y xvfb
Try to start ./vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux --port=8888. If you have some errors about loading libraries (libnss3.so, libgconf-2.so.4), try this:
$ sudo apt-get install -y libnss3-dev libxi6 libgconf-2-4
When you see
$ ./vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux --port=8888
Starting ChromeDriver 2.25.426924 (649f9b868f6783ec9de71c123212b908bf3b232e) on port 8888
Only local connections are allowed.
this means ChromeDriver can be started (so SupportsChrome trait should be able to start it too). You can stop this process for now (Ctrl+C).
Run
$ Xvfb :0 -screen 0 1280x960x24 &
in a separate terminal window.
Also you may want to add your dev domain in guest's /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 domain.dev.
This issue is to add the chromedriver to homestead by default and will
be solved mid April. https://github.com/laravel/homestead/issues/516