facebook/php-webdriver exception Failed to read marionette port (Firefox 109.0.1 - GeckoDriver 0.32 Debian-10) - firefox

Question

I am trying to use php-webdriver with Laravel 8 on an AWS LigthSail instance that comes with Debian 10 installed.
I am using Firefox(109.0.1) and Geckodriver(0.32). The code that needs to run will represent a Job that will be scheduled to run daily, for scraping certain information from a public site.
For testing purposes I have put the code in a controller that runs based on a certain route.
$desiredCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities::firefox();
$desiredCapabilities->setCapability('acceptSslCerts', false);
$firefoxOptions = new FirefoxOptions();
$firefoxOptions->addArguments(['-headless']);
$firefoxOptions->setOption("binary", "/usr/bin/firefox");
$desiredCapabilities->setCapability(FirefoxOptions::CAPABILITY, $firefoxOptions);
$serverUrl = 'http://localhost:4444';
//$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($serverUrl, $desiredCapabilities);
$driver = Firefox\FirefoxDriver::start($desiredCapabilities);
$driver->get('https://example.com');
Once the information is collected the code will send them by e-mail to a certain e-mail address. I think the code is fine, as one my local development environment it does to job it suppose to do. However when I placed it on the server it fails at this line $driver = Firefox\FirefoxDriver::start($desiredCapabilities); raising the following exception: Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\TimeoutException: Failed to read marionette port
The funny thing is if am starting the firefox and geckodriver manually on the server, and use $driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($serverUrl, $desiredCapabilities); it works just fine. But this means that firefox and geckodriver needs to run permanently even if i close my ssh session. I have made firefox to run permanently (with bg and disown commands), but geckodriver stop running when I shut the terminal.
Anyway, I wish WebDriver to be able to start the geckodriver and firefox, and not to keep them alive permanently. I have tried to install firefox either with apt install or from mozilla official repository or downloading and extracting the FirefoxSetup.tar.bz but the error is still present.
It seems that somehow Geckodriver does not know on which port Marionette is running. What I do not understand is why when I manually start firefox and gecko there is no problem, but when webdriver start them suddenly geckodriver cannot connect to marionette?
Seems that the problem maybe related with this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1421766. But according with that thread the bug was fixed 1 year ago by making geckodriver to read Marionette port from MarionetteActivePort file within the Firefox profile directory.
However in .mozilla/firefox directory there is no such MarionetteActivePort file. There are some directory related to a certain profile (default one which is full of files and directories) and one that has only one file, respectively times.json. I do not know how exactly to pass such profiles to the webdriver and nor if this will solve the problem.
Can anyone shed some light on how am I suppose to tell GeckoDriver on which port Marionette is running?