Running Selenium file in Amazon AWS

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I am running Selenium file on Amazon AWS Ubuntu Server, but I am getting the following error on the below line:

driver = webdriver.Chrome();

The error says:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127

I have tried many solutions but it is still not working (How to fix Selenium WebDriverException: The browser appears to have exited before we could connect?)

I have also tried with:

driver = webdriver.Firefox();

and in Firefox, I am getting the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused

Can anyone help me?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 08 '18 at 16:57

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Do you install chromedriver or geckodriver on the server? Your chromedriver should be in all of following directory:

chromedriver: /usr/bin/chromedriver /bin/chromedriver 
/usr/local/bin/chromedriver /usr/local/chromedriver

Or, you can paste path directly: driver = webdriver.Chrome(path='./chromedriver').

Also, use PyVirtualDisplay.

edited Jan 08 '18 at 16:57

Ratmir Asanov

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answered Sep 27 '17 at 18:12

amarynets

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Yes i have already installed gecko or chromedriver . and have also exported in path – Gopal Chitalia Sep 27 '17 at 18:13
Probably you forgot open virtual display. Here is answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/30103931/4900574 – amarynets Sep 27 '17 at 18:15
I have already posted that link in the question itself . i have tried that solution before asking over here – Gopal Chitalia Sep 27 '17 at 18:16
Did you try to call driver directly? I mean to paste the absolute path to driver into `path` variable? – amarynets Sep 27 '17 at 18:19
Has chromedriver `+x` permission? – amarynets Sep 27 '17 at 18:34
Have you read this issues https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/issues/26#issuecomment-291914969 – amarynets Sep 27 '17 at 19:42
still the same issue , can you help me out ? the script is working fine in my system but in AWS it is not working – Gopal Chitalia Sep 30 '17 at 12:19
did you install Chrome browser? Chromedriver should support this browser – amarynets Oct 01 '17 at 15:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 08 '18 at 15:09

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Since its Amazon AWS please check if Chrome is installed, if not please install from link.

edited Jan 08 '18 at 15:09

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answered Sep 27 '17 at 21:46

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 24 '18 at 04:41

Your problem is due to no display in AWS. When you are trying to execute the command driver = webdriver.Firefox() or driver = webdriver.Chrome() the system tries to launch a Firefox or Chrome browser but because you do not have access to the display in remote access so it is crashing there.

Follow the steps given at this blog and you can create a virtual display to buffer frames. Then your script will not crash due to this problem

Running Selenium file in Amazon AWS

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