Connection refused! Is selenium server started? Error: socket hang up

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Robert Thompson

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Sep 18, 2018, 10:31:33 PM9/18/18

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I'm getting the following error in Nightwatch JS when I try to run it from cmd or powershell on windows. I am running on selenium-server-standalone-3.9.1, geckodriver 0.22.0

node nightwatch.js tests\test1.js

Starting selenium server... started - PID: 13540

[Test1] Test Suite

======================

Running: step one

Error retrieving a new session from the selenium server

Connection refused! Is selenium server started?

{ Error: socket hang up

at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:331:15)

at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:363:23)

at emitOne (events.js:121:20)

at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)

at TCP._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:561:12) code: 'ECONNRESET' }

My nightwatch.json file looks like this.

{
  "src_folders" : ["tests"],
  "output_folder" : "reports",
  "custom_commands_path" : "",
  "custom_assertions_path" : "",
  "page_objects_path" : "",
  "globals_path" : "",

  "selenium" : {
    "start_process" : true,
    "server_path" : "bin/selenium-server-standalone-3.9.1.jar",
    "log_path" : "",
    "host" : "127.0.0.1",
    "port" : 4444,
    "cli_args" : {
      "webdriver.gecko.driver" : "bin/geckodriver.exe"
    }
  },

  "test_settings" : {
    "default" : {
      "launch_url" : "http://localhost",
      "selenium_port"  : 4444,
      "selenium_host"  : "localhost",
      "silent": true,
      "screenshots" : {
        "enabled" : false,
        "path" : ""
      },
      "desiredCapabilities": {
        "browserName": "firefox",
        "marionette": true
      }
    }
  }
}