prerender.io headless chrome won't start

Question

I'm trying to start prerender with headless chrome(v62) on my Centos7 sistem but it won't start. When running "node server.js" I get:

2017-11-23T08:50:08.329Z Starting Prerender

2017-11-23T08:50:08.331Z Starting Chrome

2017-11-23T08:50:08.343Z Prerender server accepting requests on port 3000

2017-11-23T08:50:08.392Z Chrome connection closed... restarting Chrome

2017-11-23T08:50:08.392Z Chrome died immediately after restart... stopping Prerender

Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thank you very much

Answer 1

That's because you can't run Chrome as root. Try running the command "sudo node server.js" with another user.

For this you need to add that user to Sudoers, here is a great tutorial how to do that https://www.webhostinghero.com/add-a-user-to-sudoers-in-centos-linux/

Answer 2

you can also add --no-sandbox to run Chrome as root.

vim $(which google-chrome)

then add --no-sandbox to the last line, make it like

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --no-sandbox