Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH while executing python selenium on web server

Question

I have a python script for scraping with selenium. Everything is going well on my local laptop. But when I put this python file on the web server, it always had errors about selenium and now I can't execute successfully owing to

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "test_availability.py", line 32, in <module>
 driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=chrome_options)
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 68, in __init__
 self.service.start()
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 83, in start
 os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: 
 Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

But I put the chromedriver in the same location as where chromedriver is on my local laptop on the web server. And the error appears. I tried many methods but this error still there.

I put chromedriver into /usr/local/bin on the web server My question is different from the selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH error with Headless Chrome Since I already used the method from the accepted acswer, but there still show the error

I need to run my python file on the web server. Below is my codes:

CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = "/home/animalsp/public_html/maps/maps2/chromedriver"
WINDOW_SIZE ="1920,1080"
chrome_options = Options() 
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=%s" % WINDOW_SIZE)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get("https://na.chargepoint.com/charge_point")

And I even tried it with Firefox. Below is my codes with Firefox:

FIREFOXDRIVER_PATH ="/home/animalsp/public_html/maps/maps2/geckodriver"
WINDOW_SIZE ="1920,1080"
firefox_options = Options() 
firefox_options.add_argument("--headless")
firefox_options.add_argument("--window-size=%s" % WINDOW_SIZE)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=FIREFOXDRIVER_PATH, firefox_options=firefox_options)
driver.get("https://na.chargepoint.com/charge_point")

Could someone help me with this? Any response will be appreciated!

Selenium 3.12.0

python 3.6.5

Chrome 66.0

Chromedriver 2.3.8

Firefox 60

geckodriver v0.20.1

• undetected Selenium: Possible duplicate of selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH error with Headless Chrome
• Alloy: PHP tag doesn't seem necessary given the context.
• Eunice TT: @DebanjanB Sorry we have different problems
• Eunice TT: @DylanMoore my final propose is executing python file by php, but now I can't run my py file in the webserver

Answer 1

You need to put your chromedriver executable file in same directory where you run your script and change your chrome_path to this:

import os
chrome_path = os.path.realpath('chromedriver')