Can not open browser in WSL when `server.open: true`

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Can not open browser in WSL when `server.open: true`

yunsii opened this issue 4 years ago · 10 comments

yunsii commented 4 years ago

Describe the solution you'd like
Open browser in WSL when server.open: true.

Answer 1 · 2021-02-22T03:45:39.000Z

Of course it can not open the browser.
But there is no browser in WSL.

Answer 2 · 2021-02-22T04:08:40.000Z

@FrankFang So it's a feature. When I use umi, it can open browser on Windows.

Answer 3 · 2021-02-22T12:49:36.000Z

It uses the open package which supports WSL, so yes it should be able to open the browser.

@theprimone do you have your Windows drives mounted somewhere other than /mnt/? Vite currently uses open@7.4.0 which misses the fix to support other mount points

Answer 4 · 2021-02-22T15:40:19.000Z

It's my fault, umi also can't open browser after started, and it not support now.

Here is my default browser path:

Answer 5 · 2021-02-22T15:49:03.000Z

Assuming this is closed via #2175

Answer 6 · 2021-02-22T16:53:07.000Z

@theprimone yarn dev --open works just fine for me on WSL, also BROWSER=chrome yarn dev --open or BROWSER="C:\Path\To\Some\Browser.exe" yarn dev --open.

However the open package recently removed support for specifying the path to the .exe as a posix path (/mnt/c/some/browser.exe), so if your BROWSER environment variable is set to that it won't work.

Answer 7 · 2021-02-23T14:51:25.000Z

@jonaskuske It works with script BROWSER=chrome vite after upgraded to vite@2.0.2. Finally, I'm curious about what BROWSER do?

Answer 8 · 2021-02-24T16:12:51.000Z

@theprimone

BROWSER is an environment variable that lets you specify which browser to use, you can either set it globally via your shell (e.g. in your ~/.bashrc) or per-script by prepending BROWSER=x to your command.

However if it isn't defined at all, open should just use your default browser by running Start http://some.site in PowerShell.

If yarn dev --open (without prepending anything) is indeed not working for you, could you:

verify that running Start https://www.google.com in PowerShell works
run echo $BROWSER in WSL and verify that the output it empty

Answer 9 · 2021-02-26T14:48:04.000Z

@jonaskuske

It's empty when I run echo $BROWSER in WSL.

And I also try BROWSER=firefox vite, it will open firefox browser, I don't understand how it open browser correctly only by name like chrome or firefox 😂

Answer 10 · 2021-02-28T22:37:20.000Z

@theprimone

I don't understand how it open browser correctly only by name

Yep, strange indeed...
Should work fine even if BROWSER is not set at all, as it just calls powershell.exe with Start http://mysite.com in that case 🤔