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I have a Symfony application with a React front end, and I want to run cypress end to end tests again the application. For local development, I have an nginx container to serve the application, and I’ve been trying to use that as the server for cypress.
I’ve tried a couple different approaches, including running a cypress image as a service. However, I think the problem I’m having is nginx isn’t serving the application as expected.
Here’s the test container from .gitlab-ci:
e2etest:
stage: test
needs: [validate composer, lint php]
services:
- mysql:8.0
# - cypress/included:5.3.0
variables:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: "root"
APP_ENV: "test"
before_script:
- apt update && apt install -y libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb
- curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.3/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
- chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
- composer2 install --no-progress --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader --ansi
- yarn global add cypress wait-on
- yarn install
- yarn run build
- pecl install xdebug
- echo "zend_extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/xdebug.so" >> /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini
- mv .env.ci .env.test.local
# - ./bin/console doctrine:database:create --env=test --if-not-exists
# - ./bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate --allow-no-migration --no-interaction --all-or-nothing --env=test
- /usr/local/bin/docker-compose --version
script:
- /usr/local/bin/docker-compose up -d nginx & wait-on http://localhost:8080
- cypress run --headless --browser chrome
It’s definitely kind of a mess, but at this point I just want it to run.
Here’s the nginx server from docker-compose:
nginx:
build: ./docker/nginx
ports:
- "8080:80"
- "8043:443"
depends_on:
- php
networks:
- blackfire
- php
volumes:
- .:/var/www:cached
- shared-volume:/var/www/public/files
Finally, the wait-on never finishes, and if I remove the wait-on, cypress tells me it doesn’t find the site at localhost:8080, where I am trying to run the nginx server.
It seems like something about the configuration of the host container makes it so the server is never exposed. Maybe I can run the Symfony php web server in this container without docker.