Connection refused thrown when instantiating a new chrome driver - selenium

Question

I have a selenium project with cucumber on my local Jenkins server.
DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
try {
baseUtil.driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), capability);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
This is how i instantiate my driver. I have the chrome plugin on jenkins as well.
When i try to build, i get this error:
org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not
start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote
server or browser start-up failure.
....
Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to
localhost:4444 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]
failed: Connection refused
Any idea what am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you are running locally try switching to chromedriver
DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
try {
baseUtil.driver = new ChromeDriver(capability));
} catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
the URL in your previous call was set to point to the hub which you aren't using.
you might need to point it at the local driver location such as:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "<pathtoyourchromedriver>/chromedriver.exe");