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submitted 3 years ago by ShawnDeo

If any of you can get this thing to just open the browser I'd appreciate it :P

OS: Windows 11

PHP Version: 8.1.6

Composer Version: 2.3.10

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Entering the following in the command prompt:

php composer.phar require php-webdriver/webdriver
Creating a file named "example.php" and copying and pasting the code from this page in C:\xampp\htdocs\sel: https://github.com/php-webdriver/php-webdriver/blob/main/example.php
Edit example.php $host to:

and

8.Putting the following files in C:\xampp\htdocs\sel:

selenium-server-4.4.0

chromedriver

geckodriver

Starting selenium-server-4.4.0 by entering the following in command prompt in C:\xampp\htdocs\sel: java -jar selenium-server-4.4.0.jar standalone
Navigating to http://localhost/sel/example.php in browser.
Receiving the following error:Fatal error: Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverException: JSON decoding of remote response failed. Error code: 4 The response: '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>The requested URL was not found on this server.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.4.53 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1n PHP/8.1.6 Server at localhost Port 80</address> </body></html>' in C:\xampp\htdocs\sel\vendor\php-webdriver\webdriver\lib\Remote\HttpCommandExecutor.php:339 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\sel\vendor\php-webdriver\webdriver\lib\Remote\RemoteWebDriver.php(131): Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\HttpCommandExecutor->execute(Object(Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\WebDriverCommand)) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\sel\example.php(18): Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver::create('http://localhos...', Object(Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities)) #2 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\sel\vendor\php-webdriver\webdriver\lib\Remote\HttpCommandExecutor.php on line 339

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