SimpleTest [Browser] on Vista
Last modified: March 8, 2009 - 05:57
The Symptom
[Browser] based SimpleTests are failing when run on your localhost (or any system) running Windows Vista.
The Problem
Windows Vista has added a line to its hosts file that blocks SimpleTest's Browser from fetching pages via the following code in SimpleTest's socket.php file
function _openSocket($host, $port, &$error_number, &$error, $timeout) {
return @fsockopen($host, $port, $error_number, $error, $timeout);
}The Solution
1. Run notepad as Administrator (find the icon for notepad, right-click->run as Administrator)
2. Navigate to your hosts file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
3. Find the line that looks like:
::1 localhostand remove it, or comment it out with a #
4. Restart apache
5. enjoy working SimpleTest [browser] tests
This should actually be moved
This should actually be moved to a general Drupal on Windows type section, because I'm pretty sure this also causes problems with drupal_http_request and other self-HTTP-request type things.
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