Cannot find config-file

[Christian-Oleson]

In my local setup, I have cypress setup:
reponame/cypress/config/myConfig.json

I've tried the config-file option, including specifying the directories, subdirectories, etc.
e.g.,

config-file: myConfig.json

and nothing seems to resolve the file. I keep getting this error:

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:42869/devtools/browser/765dff37-7f7b-490f-9a4e-b18bdb5c1079
Could not find a Cypress configuration file.

We looked but did not find a myConfig.json file in this folder: /home/runner/work/reponame/reponame

What is the recommended setup for config files in this runner? Where is the runner starting from in terms of its local directory? e.g. repo root?

[MikeMcC399]

@Christian-Oleson

The most likely reason for your problem would be if you are using the command parameter. See the README > Custom install command where it says:

"Caution: using the action parameter command causes multiple other parameters to be ignored including: auto-cancel-after-failures, browser, ci-build-id, command-prefix, component, config, config-file, env, group, headed, parallel, project, publish-summary, quiet, record, spec and tag."

If that is not the case, then please post your workflow.

Note that

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:42869/devtools/browser/765dff37-7f7b-490f-9a4e-b18bdb5c1079

is not an error. It is an informational message which is unrelated to your problem.

• See Message "DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1" cypress#26753

[Christian-Oleson]

Thanks for the comment @MikeMcC399 . I am not using the command parameter. Here is my workflow:

name: Cypress Tests
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'main'
      - 'feature**'
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      branch:
        config: 'The config to use'
        required: true
        default: "staging"

jobs:
  test:
    name: Cypress run
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Cypress run
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v6
        with:
          config-file: myConfig.json
          spec: |
            **/*Catalog.cy.js
            **/*Catalog.cy.ts
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

I had the config-file replaced with the config parameter locally to try and bypass this problem

[MikeMcC399]

@Christian-Oleson

Which version of Cypress are you using?

[Christian-Oleson]

@Christian-Oleson

Which version of Cypress are you using?

@MikeMcC399

"cypress": "^13.3.0",

[MikeMcC399]

@Christian-Oleson

Thanks for confirming your Cypress version!

There is an error in the README > Config file documentation as far as using the parameter config-file with current configurations (Cypress 10.x and later) is concerned.

According to the Cypress documentation References > Configuration > Configuration File:

This file will be cypress.config.js for JavaScript apps or cypress.config.ts for TypeScript apps.

In Cypress legacy configurations it used to be cypress.json.

You should make sure that you are passing a *.js file to the parameter config-file, not a *.json file since you are using Cypress 13.x.

[MikeMcC399]

@Christian-Oleson

• I've submitted a PR Cannot find config-file #1046 to correct the documentation and to provide a working example of using the config-file parameter.

Let us know if you are still having difficulties after checking out my previous post #1046 (comment) ^^

[Christian-Oleson]

@Christian-Oleson

• I've submitted a PR Cannot find config-file #1046 to correct the documentation and to provide a working example of using the config-file parameter.

Let us know if you are still having difficulties after checking out my previous post #1046 (comment) ^^

Totally, I'm still trying to get this to work, so I'll be working through the issue on my end now. Per your above explanation, it sounds like that is the issue I am hitting.

[Christian-Oleson]

The above documentation fix resolved this for me. Thank you @MikeMcC399 !