Selenium: Unable to connect to the remote server

Question

I'm trying to run a simple test with Selenium that somebody over in QA setup for me. This test has run before, and passed, but now I keep getting an error message. I don't know what it means, but I don't think it's a problem with my code, I think it's a problem with Selenium. This is the error:

failed: System.Net.WebException : Unable to connect to the remote server
  ----> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException : No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it [IP ADDRESS]

What does it mean? The "remote server" is actually my dev-box, so I can't think of why it couldn't connect. I've disabled my Firewall and still nothing.

Is there something simple I'm missing? Is there a config file that I need to setup?

Answer 1

Make sure you have Selenium RC running. I use a simple batch file called Selenium.bat that looks like this:

java -jar c:\selenium\selenium-server.jar -multiwindow

(-multiwindow prevents framekiller code from breaking your test)