I can begin running my test cases.From ( : Requirements Make sure libraries have been moved over or installed properly to the server. TIL: If you want to kill the process, use ps to view running processes. nohup java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar &

The importance is nuhup and & to run a process in the background on Linux. I'm using selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar. You're looking for the Selenium server as selenium-server-standalone-#.jar provided here. Tell all XWindows applications in this terminal session to use the new Xvfb display port: $ export DISPLAY=:99 Launch an XWindows Virtual Frame Buffer(XVFB) session on display port 99: $ Xvfb :99 -ac -screen 0 1280x1024x24 & $ yum -y groupinstall 'X Window System' 'Desktop' 'Fonts' 'General Purpose Desktop' I read so many articles on Selnium and CentOS, but this gist saved the day: $ yum -y install firefox Xvfb libXfont Xorg OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode) Java $ yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel Make sure you have root privileges as well. I used an older server running CentOS 5 and ran into complications, so I made sure I was on CentOS 7. You'll want to check out the repo ( facebook/php-webdriver) and get things running locally before proceeding.

I had a fresh server with nothing installed. Here's my steps for running Selenium WebDriver in PHP on CentOS 7, using Firefox. After hours, I switched over to Firefox and it worked in 5 minutes. I had Selenium and Chrome working locally on my Mac, but the exact steps do not rollover. I give up on Chrome and ChromeDriver on CentOS. Getting Selenium + Chrome + CentOS up was a nightmare.

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