Hi, I have a simple github actions workflow that does the following: 1. Clones the backend laravel repo and frontend Vue3 repo 2. Runs:

php artisan serve --host=127.0.0.1 --port=1234 &

3. Checks the server status using curl:

curl -vv http://127.0.0.1:1234

(it returns the correct default page of the api) 4. Runs cypress:

- name: Cypress run
      uses: cypress-io/github-action@v5
      env:
        API_BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:1234/
      with:
        start: npm run dev
        wait-on: "http://127.0.0.1:1234/"

5. The cypress command fails on `http://127.0.0.1:1234/ timed out on retry 91 of 3, elapsed 90245ms, limit 90000ms`' in github actions. Any ideas on how I can debug this further? Thanks!

Hi, You can find debugging tips for this situation in https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action#debugging.

Great options @many-airline-45402 ! I personally prefer to use start-server-and-test: https://github.com/bahmutov/start-server-and-test The

cypress run

command will only be executed when the URL http://127.0.0.1:1234/ responds with an HTTP status code of 200. The server will also shut down when the tests complete. You can find more in our docs here: https://docs.cypress.io/guides/continuous-integration/introduction#Solutions

start-server-and-test is a complete alternative to using the github-action. It depends how complex the needs are, which one is better. github-action has lots of options. start-server-and-test is based on the npm package wait-on. You can also use the npm package wait-on in github-action by specifying wait-on: 'npx wait-on --timeout 60000 http://127.0.0.1:1234' The first wait-on is the github-action parameter, the second wait-on, after npx, is the npm package wait-on, which is slightly confusing at first viewing!

Thanks for all the help. However I still get: Error: Timed out waiting for: http://127.0.0.1:1234 even with 'wait-on: 'npx wait-on --timeout 20000 http://127.0.0.1:1234'. Do you have an example of starting two different servers inside a github actions runner?

Hi @adamant-printer-77643 You can check out the workflow examples in https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action/tree/master/.github/workflows, particularly https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action/blob/master/.github/workflows/example-wait-on.yml fits your use case. It starts various different servers including from react and vite. You can fork the repository and try out the examples yourself.