Laravel-websockets: stuck on Starting the WebSocket server on port 6001... after running php artisan websockets:serve

[AMINEDGE]

Hi there
My project uses Laravel 5.8 and I followed the Installation guide and set up my pusher configs and then when I type php artisan websockets:serve from terminal it just stuck on Starting the WebSocket server on port 6001... and won't run the server, I tried several times and nothing changed, I googled my problem and didn't find anything related to my issue, can someone tell me where's the problem? Thanks.

[anshul321]

@AMINEDGE How you have checked that your socket server is not started? Because when you hit the command it just print a message Starting the WebSocket server on port 6001... and server has been started already.

[AMINEDGE]

@anshul321 Oh, I thought it should print the url like when you run php artisan serve which represents Laravel development server started: <http://127.0.0.1:8000>, then it seems to have no problem, but is there any quick way to check if it's running other than connecting from client app?

[anshul321]

@AMINEDGE Yes, it should print but the creator does not print that I think -_-

You can test this by connecting the socket server from your client side, like in JS new WebSocket("ws://site-url:6001/pusher-app-key");

It will then log the events on the terminal.