Running selenium on a headless EC2?

Question

I have an instanceless EC2 M1.Small running Ubuntu. I tried to use it to run a selenium test encoded in Ruby. I am running selenium 2.0b3 server (last).

I included XVFB:

$ sudo startx - which is Xvfb: 1-screen 0 1024x768x24 2> & 1> / dev / null & [1] 1119

$ DISPLAY =: 1 java -jar Automation / ruby-selenium-framework / selenium-server-1.0.3 / selenium-server.jar> /tmp/selenium_log.log & [2] 1245

And then run my code:

$ ./BTRuby.rb coverage_ 

I get the following output to selenium log:

 14:11:27.448 INFO - Command request: getNewBrowserSession[*firefox, URL, , ] on session null 14:11:27.448 INFO - creating new remote session 14:11:27.448 INFO - Allocated session 4b1395b136174ab798eddd6a59d8e308 for URL, launching... 14:11:27.488 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile... 14:11:30.709 INFO - Launching Firefox... 14:11:35.873 INFO - Got result: OK,4b1395b136174ab798eddd6a59d8e308 on session 4b1395b136174ab798eddd6a59d8e308 14:11:35.878 INFO - Command request: setTimeout[30000000, ] on session 4b1395b136174ab798eddd6a59d8e308 14:11:35.937 INFO - Got result: OK on session 4b1395b136174ab798eddd6a59d8e308 14:11:36.007 INFO - Command request: open[URL, ] on session 4b1395b136174ab798eddd6a59d8e308 

Can anyone help? It seems to be hanging on this last line of INFO.

By the way, the url variable is a valid url that I removed for this question

Answer 1

sudo startx - which Xvfb: 1-screen 0 1024x768x24 2> & 1> / dev / null &

DISPLAY =: 1 java -jar selenium-server-1.0.3 / selenium-server.jar> /tmp/selenium_log.log &

was able to perform the trick