Selenium and php-webdriver on shared server = "chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed."

[RagingBullDurham]

I've installed Selenium and php-webdriver (via composer) on a shared/remote/hosted server where I do have ssh access, but don't have sudo/root access.

Seleinium is in path (Selneium --version yields "Selenium server version: 3.14.0, revision: aacccce0")

I've also installed

• chrome in my ~/bin directory(part of my path) (chrome --version yields "Google Chrome for Testing 124.0.6367.207"
• chromedriver in my ~/bin directory (chromedriver --version yields "ChromeDriver 124.0.6367.207 (a9001a6e39fbaa559510ca866052950457dd4e6b-refs/branch-heads/6367_201@{Add namespace #3}")

All simple test (even w/o Selenium) seem to fail...
For example, turning on chromedriver (chromedriver --port=4444 yeilds "ChromeDriver was started successfully")

And running the following php file:

addArguments(['--headless']); $chromeOptions->addArguments(["--remote-debugging-port=4444"]); $capabilities->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $chromeOptions); $driver = RemoteWebDriver::create('http://localhost:4444', $capabilities); $driver->close(); yeilds: ncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally. (chrome not reachable) (The process started from chrome location /home/ninahub2/bin/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.) in /home/ninahub2/scrape.ninahub.com/php/vendor/php-webdriver/webdriver/lib/Exception/WebDriverException.php:130 Any ideas???