bundling shiny server with Apache http server

[John Williams]

Hi ... I desire to bundle shiny server with an  Apache http server,  to render shiny-generated html along with apache-generated html.   Any known issues with such a setup?       

[henryk....@gmail.com]

Hi John

you are not very specific about the setup you plan to run.
I'm successfully using Apache as reverse proxy to forward requests to shiny-server.
http://myhost/shinyApps/ gets proxied to http://myotherhost:3838/ where shiny is listening.
Another setup would be to run shiny-server on a different port on the same server.

In my experience it works very smoothly, with one exception:
Using shiny-server open source it is difficult to pass information from Apache to the shiny-app. Most header fields are filtered (in particular REMOTE_USER).

Hope this helps.

Henryk