Selenium startup script (NOW UPDATED FOR SELENIUM 2.X)

This is a simple startup script based on the jenkins startup script.

This startup script assumes you have selenium server 2.x installed in the dir /var/lib/selenium also assumes you have the pkg daemon installed and a java runtime installed (this was tested in ubuntu 10.04.4 with openjdk-6-jdk)

and the following already created in your linux box:

id: selenium

home: /var/lib/selenium

shell: /bin/bash

selenium installation directory: /var/lib/selenium

sudo groupadd -r selenium
sudo useradd -r -d /var/lib/selenium -s /bin/bash -m -g selenium -G selenium selenium

log dir: /var/log/selenium owned by the selenium id

sudo mkdir /var/log/selenium
sudo chown selenium.selenium /var/log/selenium

Install the selenium server 2.x in your home directory:

sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.32.0.jar -O /var/lib/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.32.0.jar

Create a symlink:

cd /var/lib/selenium
sudo ln -s selenium-server-standalone-2.32.0.jar selenium-server-standalone.jar

Create a default grid.yml configuration:

sudo cp /local/repo/path/grid.yml /var/lib/selenium/

Copy the default file and the init.d file in the right locations:

sudo cp /local/repo/path/etc/init.d/selenium /etc/init.d/
sudo cp /local/repo/path/etc/default/selenium /etc/default/

Make sure the init.d script is executable:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/selenium   

Install the service startup:

sudo update-rc.d selenium defaults

Start the selenium hub:

sudo /etc/init.d/selenium start

Check the logs:

sudo tail -f /var/log/selenium/selenium.log

The service configuration can be found in /etc/default/selenium