Azure Web App and WebDriver

[Martin]

Hi!

I am running a Web application on an Azure server, and I want to do some automation through Selenium and PhantomJS, but the problem is that Azure does not allow the use of localhost.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Cheers!

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Martin,

Since not many of us are familiar with the Azure cloud, you might want to add a bit more context to your question. What is the problem ? What is the error that you see. Maybe if you could please help add this, someone could help you out here.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Martin]

Hello!

But of course, I'll post some more information. :)

Selenium is running in a web application, and this web application is published on an Azure web server, which means that it has restricted access to different things. E.g. Localhost.

When I initialize a new driver, (PhantomJS driver), I get this error:

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot start the driver service on http://localhost:50682/

   at OpenQA.Selenium.DriverService.Start()

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)

I was therefore wondering, if anyone have had the same experience and perhaps knew more about the issue that I do, because Azure and Selenium together can't be that rare. :)

Thanks,

Martin

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Martin,

A quick look at the command line args for phantomjs.exe [ the server binary ] revealed that it accepts a CLI named 

  --webdriver=<val>                    Starts in 'Remote WebDriver mode' (embedded GhostDriver): '[[<IP>:]<PORT>]' (default '127.0.0.1:8910')

So maybe you can set this CLI using the DesiredCapabilities [ The key for the capability would be com.visa.framework.ui.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriverService#PHANTOMJS_GHOSTDRIVER_CLI_ARGS ], wherein you pass the IP address of the actual machine and see if that helps.

Alternatively I stumbled into this blog post, which claims it can solve this restriction of "cannot access localhost on azure". Maybe you can give it a read and see if that helps 

http://blog.ehuna.org/2009/10/an_easier_way_to_access_the_wi.html

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else!"
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[Martin]

Thank you very much, Krishnan. I will take a look right away. :)

[rkau...@gmail.com]

I want to use phantomjs web driver on azue web job but its getting Exception;

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot start the driver service on http://localhost:51293/ at OpenQA.Selenium.DriverService.Start() at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)

http://localhost:51293/ this path changed at every run .

For this issue I have tried multiple options but still getting exception on live (local it's working fine)

[rkau...@gmail.com]

Hello Martin,

Have you got any solution for this I am getting same issue while usinh phantomjs webdriver on azure webjob

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot start the driver service on http://localhost:51293/ at OpenQA.Selenium.DriverService.Start() at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)

http://localhost:51293/ this path changed at every run .

Please help 

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 2:43:08 PM UTC+5:30, Martin wrote:

[Diogo Nunes]

I have the same problem, with a headless Chrome(Driver).

Locally works fine, MacOS and Win10. On VSTS it doesn't.

And I'm not even trying to navigate to a page, that error displays as soon as I create an instance of ChromeDriver.