Can't open ChromeDriver without Selenium Standalone Server.

[any626]

I did what the wiki said, which is the following:

<?php
  putenv("webdriver.chrome.driver=/path/to/chromedriver");
  $driver = ChromeDriver::start();

But the browser never opens. I can see in the Activity Manager and terminal that it opens up but ends up timing out.

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\TimeOutException' with message 'Timed out waiting for http://localhost:9515/status to become available after 20000 ms.' in /Users/.../php/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Net/URLChecker.php:36

I successfully ran the chromedriver using the same file in both node and python bindings.

[php-denken]

Did you start a selenium server? Download it here http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ (the 2.53.0 link) and start it with java -jar [downloaded file]. Java has to be installed on your machine.

[any626]

I didn't. The purpose of this is to run it without the server. Directly to the chrome driver.

[php-denken]

Forget what I said. It is early in the morning and I didn't read your question well. I had not recognized that you are trying to run in without the server🤐

[OndraM]

@php-denken Hi, do you still face the issue? As I was also not able to start the ChromeDriver directly, I've changed the way the standalone chrome driver is started. Could you please try using this branch to see if the issue lasts or not?

Its in a branch in mine fork.

If you change your composer.json to contain this:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/OndraM/php-webdriver"
    }
]

And then run
composer require facebook/webdriver:dev-symfony-process@dev
the updated version should be installed and you will be able to try it. Could you please test it?

[OndraM]

The way chrome processes are started was changed - please try in next php-webdriver and let us know if the problem persists!

[OndraM]

Should be fixed in php-webdriver 1.3.0.

[frankiejarrett]

@OndraM I'm experiencing the same problem described here. Possible regression?

ChromeDriver 2.31.488774
Facebook\WebDriver 1.4.1

Test run.php bootstrap:

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

putenv('webdriver.chrome.driver=/path/to/chromedriver');

$driver = Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeDriver::start();

Output:

$ php run.php
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\TimeOutException: Timed out waiting for http://localhost:9515/status to become available after 20000 ms. in /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Net/URLChecker.php:37
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Remote/Service/DriverService.php(93): Facebook\WebDriver\Net\URLChecker->waitUntilAvailable(20000, 'http://localhos...')
#1 /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Remote/Service/DriverCommandExecutor.php(51): Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\Service\DriverService->start()
#2 /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Chrome/ChromeDriver.php(51): Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\Service\DriverCommandExecutor->execute(Object(Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\WebDriverCommand))
#3 /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Chrome/ChromeDriver.php(37): Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeDriver->startSession(Object(Facebook\WebDriver\Rem in /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Net/URLChecker.php on line 37

Fatal error: Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\TimeOutException: Timed out waiting for http://localhost:9515/status to become available after 20000 ms. in /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Net/URLChecker.php on line 37

Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\TimeOutException: Timed out waiting for http://localhost:9515/status to become available after 20000 ms. in /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Net/URLChecker.php on line 37

Call Stack:
    0.0002     355192   1. {main}() /var/www/project/run.php:0
    0.0028     500448   2. Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeDriver::start() /var/www/project/run.php:7
    0.0060     676544   3. Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeDriver->startSession() /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Chrome/ChromeDriver.php:37
    0.0065     694056   4. Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\Service\DriverCommandExecutor->execute() /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Chrome/ChromeDriver.php:51
    0.0065     694056   5. Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeDriverService->start() /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Remote/Service/DriverCommandExecutor.php:51
    0.0140    1076776   6. Facebook\WebDriver\Net\URLChecker->waitUntilAvailable() /var/www/project/vendor/facebook/webdriver/lib/Remote/Service/DriverService.php:93

Response from http://localhost:9515/status:

{
  "sessionId": "",
  "status": 0,
  "value": {
    "build": {
      "version": "alpha"
    },
    "os": {
      "arch": "x86_64",
      "name": "Mac OS X",
      "version": "10.12.6"
    }
  }
}

[frankiejarrett]

So after a lot of digging I finally that discovered that PHP builds installed with Homebrew using the --with-homebrew-curl flag will not play nice with WebDriver.

The problem went away after I ran this:

brew unlink php71
brew uninstall php71 --force --ignore-dependencies
brew cleanup
brew install php71

[OndraM]

@fjarrett Thanks for the information! Would be useful for others when facing the same issue :).