Hi everyone! I am trying to setup Cypress in our GitLab CI pipeline. Changes of a merge request should get deployed to a QA server and then Cypress tests should run against it. The

BASE_URL

is set correctly to the servers address. For the CI job I am using the

cypress/included

(

cypress/browsers

also works) image. I install npm dependencies and run cypress with

cypress run --e2e

via npm script. However Cypress fails to verify that the server is running. I can confirm that the QA server is running and accessible all the time. I attached a screenshot with the relevant GitLab CI job output (sensitive info blurred). The input also shows that that pinging the server before running Cypress is successful. The QA server is only accessible via VPN. Since the container can also ping the server it also should be able to access it. Running the command locally (with VPN enabled) works like a charm. How can I get Cypress to verify that the server is available?

Hi @victorious-salesclerk-78076 `ping`may not give you the full picture. Did you try testing with

curl

with something like

curl -I https://qa-server

? Which version of Cypress are you running?

Hi @many-airline-45402. You were right

ping

does not show the full picture. I got mislead by it. Tried it with

curl

and indeed the page can not be accessed from within the container. So this is not a Cypress issue but more of a networking issue. Just to confirm with you: To access pages behind VPN I need to use

HTTP_PROXY

, correct?

Good to hear you made some progress! I'll have to pass on the VPN question. Hopefully somebody else will be able to jump in on that question.

I will play around a bit create a new post if I do not succeed. Huge thanks for getting me on the right path 🙏 🙂