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andyfrith2
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5 years ago

Jenkins plugin - local tunnel

Hi,   I am trialling using the Jenkins CBT plugin and want to use the local tunnel with it, however it fails and doesn't give a very useful error message:     17:43:40 Going to use default tunne...
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andyfrith2
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5 years ago

Thanks for your response.

 

Yes I'm trying to open the tunnel on the same network as Jenkins.

 

I noticed looking in the plugin code that it is looking for the embedded tunnel at 

"/cbt_tunnels/v0.9.3";

however I don't see this installed on my Jenkins install, so perhaps that is the issue? It sounds like the plugin should handle this automatically, but perhaps I should try the option to manually install the cbt_tunnel module and provide the path to it.

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    andyfrith2
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    5 years ago

    Thanks Alex, I hadn't seen that page before and it contradicts the documentation for the plugin I was reading at 

     

    https://plugins.jenkins.io/crossbrowsertesting/

     

    which states:

     

    Optional: Check Use Local Tunnel to run tests on webpages behind your firewall. The CBT NodeJS Tunnel is embedded into the plugin and does not need to be install on the Jenkins Server. 

     

    Hence I was expecting it to work out of the box. I would prefer to not be installing NPM modules directly onto Jenkins so I am currently trying by using the NPM module imported into our tests instead.

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      AlexKaras
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      5 years ago

      TanyaYatskovska , sonya_m :

      > I hadn't seen that page before and it contradicts the documentation for the plugin I was reading at

      Ladies, could you please ask technical writers of the appropriate team to take a look and make documentation to be consistent?

       

       

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        sonya_m
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        5 years ago

        AlexKaras Thanks again, Alex, I've informed the doc team, they'll look into it.

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      mickyjohnston
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      5 years ago

      andyfrith2did you get this working? I am trying the same thing and ran into the same \ similar issue as you. I'd rather not pursue it any further if it's going to be a dead-end. Thanks.

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        andyfrith2
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        5 years ago

        mickyjohnston no I didn't get it working. My understanding is that you need to install the CBT tunnel via Node onto Jenkins first, and then the plugin ought to work - however I didn't take that approach and have since been looking at other products.