3. Laravel Dusk hitting Laragon splash page/localhost?

Laravel Dusk hitting Laragon splash page/localhost?

  • H
    | 4610 points

    Overview of the problem

    I am using Laragon for local development and I am trying to get started with Laravel Dusk, however, I cannot get it to run correctly. It appears to be hitting http://localhost instead of http://ticket.dev

    Set up

    • Windows 7, 64bit
    • Laravel 5.4.15
    • Dev env: Laragon
    • PHP 7

    Dusk Installation

    I did the following to install dusk:

    • composer require laravel/dusk
    • Set the following in .env and .env.dusk.local: APP_URL=http://ticket.dev
    • Added the following to my AppServiceProvider register() method:

    app/Providers/AppServiceProviders.php

    use Laravel\Dusk\DuskServiceProvider;

//...

public function register()
{
    if ($this->app->environment('local', 'testing')) {
        $this->app->register(DuskServiceProvider::class);
    }
}

    Running Dusk

    When I run php artisan dusk, I get the following in my console:

    1) Tests\Browser\ExampleTest::testBasicExample                                           
Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverException: JSON decoding of remote response failed.
Error code: 4                                                                            
The response: '<!DOCTYPE html>                                                           
<html>                                                                                   
    <head>                                                                               
        <title>Laragon</title>                           

// the rest of the output is what http://localhost produces
// i.e. the Laragon splash page

    So it appears to be hitting http://localhost and not my APP_URL, i.e. http://ticket.dev?

    Attempted solutions

    After googling the first few lines of the console output:

    1) Tests\Browser\ExampleTest::testBasicExample                                           
Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverException: JSON decoding of remote response failed.
Error code: 4

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverException%3A+JSON+decoding+of+remote+response+failed.+Error+code%3A+4&oq=Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverException%3A+JSON+decoding+of+remote+response+failed.+Error+code%3A+4&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.911j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    I find users of webdriver putting the errror down to proxy related issues. I am behind a proxy at my work place so I thought this might be the issue. However, I'm not 100% certain if it's a proxy issue, regardless, I have tried the following assuming it might be...

    I found this github wiki page https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver/wiki/HowTo-Work-with-proxy and after browsing through the vendor folders related to Dusk I tried setting the proxy when the driver is set up in the driver() function in the file tests/DuskTestCase.php.

    I've tried the following, but I get the same console output as mentioned before:

    protected function driver()
{
    // same as DesiredCapabilities::chrome() except with proxy info
    $capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities([
        WebDriverCapabilityType::BROWSER_NAME => WebDriverBrowserType::CHROME,
        WebDriverCapabilityType::PLATFORM => WebDriverPlatform::ANY,
        WebDriverCapabilityType::PROXY => [
            'proxyType' => 'manual',
            'httpProxy' => 'http://proxy:8080',
            'sslProxy' => 'http://proxy:8080',
        ],
    ]);

    return RemoteWebDriver::create(
        'http://localhost:9515',
        $capabilities,
    );

    // original code after installation
    // return RemoteWebDriver::create('http://localhost:9515', DesiredCapabilities::chrome());
}

    and ...

    protected function driver()
{
    $capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities([
        WebDriverCapabilityType::BROWSER_NAME => WebDriverBrowserType::CHROME,
        WebDriverCapabilityType::PLATFORM => WebDriverPlatform::ANY,
        WebDriverCapabilityType::PROXY => [
            'proxyType' => 'manual',
            'httpProxy' => 'http://proxy:8080', // have also tried without specifying http://
            'sslProxy' => 'http://proxy:8080', // have also tried without specifying http://
        ],
    ]);

    return RemoteWebDriver::create(
        'http://localhost:9515',
        $capabilities,
        null,
        null,
        $http_proxy = 'http://proxy', // have also tried without specifying http://
        $http_proxy_port = '8080',
        null
    );
}

    But I still face the same issue.

    After creating an issue on the Laravel Dusk repo, I have also tried stopping Laragon, setting APP_UL=http://127.0.0.1:8000 in env.dusk.local and ran php artisan serve --env=dusk.local, but I still had the same issue of the Laragon splash page/localhost being hit in the test.

    Also, to ensure that I was hitting http://ticket.dev and not http://localhost I also added dd(Browser::$baseUrl) to the propagateScaffoldingToBrowser method in Laravel\Dusk\TestCase.php, but it returned http://ticket.dev.

    Could it be something to do with the windows host file? As http://ticket.dev is currently wired up to 127.0.0.1 in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts:

    127.0.0.1      ticket.dev           #laragon magic!

    Any ideas on what's going on?

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  • administrators
    | 82283 points

    @haakym: I suggest you to you Ngork url (Menu > Ngork > share -> ticket.dev) for debugging. If the issue gone, it's definitely your proxy is the root cause.

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  • W
    | 34 points

    Got the same problem, exactly this "So it appears to be hitting http://localhost and not my APP_URL, i.e. http://ticket.dev?" or it seems.

    Edit: Ok, I fixed it. In your .env.dusk.local add your route with port. i.e. APP_URL=http://ticket.dev:8000 now run php artisan serve and php artisan dusk. Rudimentary but it works.

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  • H
    | 4610 points

    @leokhoa Thanks, I will give this a try!

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  • H
    | 4610 points

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  • H
    | 4610 points

    @leokhoa I have tried Menu > Ngork > share -> ticket.dev

    With ngrok, I am getting the same issue with the Laragon splash page displaying instead of http://ticket.dev. I am guessing it is down to my proxy again. Any workarounds for this?

    Here's a screen shot of the result after running Ngrok

    0_1490000844912_ngrok proxy issue.png

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  • administrators
    | 82283 points

    @haakym: Did you change your Dusk's env to Ngrok url also?

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  • H
    | 4610 points

    @leokhoa I didn't try that because it didn't appear ngrok was functioning correctly so why try Dusk. I just tried it anyway and dusk is still returning error and outputting the Laragon splash page.

    Anytime I run dusk, even when I remove the Laravel app from C:/laragon/www/ticket to some other folder and use php artisan serve, dusk always returns the Laragon splash page. Any idea why this happens?

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  • administrators
    | 82283 points

    @haakym: You need to change the env of Dusk:
    APP_URL=http://ticket.dev:3000

    or:
    APP_URL=http://localhost:3000

    or:
    If you use Ngrok, change it to ngrok url:
    APP_URL=https://xxx.ngrok.io

    I believe it will work.

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  • H
    | 4610 points

    @leokhoa Still no change, sorry! See screenshot below...

    0_1490009541157_ngrok running dusk.png

    I don't think Ngrok is running properly to be honest, see the error "Could not detect Ngrok tunnel link".

    I think I am going to give up on this now. Thanks a lot for your help and assistance it's really appreciated.

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  • administrators
    | 82283 points

    @haakym: You're welcome! Cheer

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  • D
    | 50 points

    This thread is old though, but I ran into same problem recently. The solution is to change the value of APP_URL in the .env file from http://localhost to your projects homepage e.g. APP_URL = blog.dev.

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  • administrators
    | 82283 points

    Cool, thanks @dreemer6 :) . Your information will definitely help others!

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