Trying to host my shiny app for everyone to see with shiny-server

[Derek Corcoran]

Hello Everyone:

I am a longtime R and shiny user, but a first time shiny-server user with little experience. I am trying to host a shiny app, and I was trying to follow the discussion in this thread (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/shiny-discuss/cBrh2abDvAs) but still haven’t been able to figure it out, so far I changed the listening port from 3838 to 80 as recommended in the thread and also tried to access the "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" folder as shown in the thread, but it does not exist in my ubuntu.

My app runs fine locally and I can see it by typing http://146.155.169.145/Example/ in my browser, but when I try to access it from other computers I can’t. As stated above, I have a lot of experience in R and Shiny, but I do not know much about hosting.

My shiny-server.conf is the following:

# Instruct Shiny Server to run applications as the user "shiny"

run_as shiny;

# Define a server that listens on port 3838

server {

listen 80;

# Define a location at the base URL

location / {

# Host the directory of Shiny Apps stored in this directory

site_dir /srv/shiny-server;

# Log all Shiny output to files in this directory

log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;

# When a user visits the base URL rather than a particular application,

# an index of the applications available in this directory will be shown.

directory_index on;

}

}

and I am using ubuntu 16.04

Let me know if I can give you more information

Thanks

Derek