Seeking help setting up a micro instance on AWS EC2 for a simple "hello world" app

Question

I'm trying to get a working app on a micro instance on amazon ec2.

I've been using the ami (ami-e2a3358b) I found from a blog post at http://trestletechnology.net/2013/02/deploying-shiny-server-on-amazon-ec2/

I've been learning about using EC2 but it is new to me. I'm using putty and winSCV to connect to the machine.

Now I think I'm at the stage where I want to make a config file and put my app in a ShinyApps folder. I've read over config.html in /shiny-server but I am having some trouble putting all the pieces together. I've also looked at http://rstudio.github.io/shiny-server/latest/ but I haven't figured it all out.

I just want to have a single ShinyApps folder I can put my apps in with a shiny-server.conf file that will recognize where that folder is.

What config file do I need to put in /shiny-server directory? Where do want to put my ShinyApps folder for this config file? And what is the final address (and port?) that I want to put in the url bar to get to the app?

Thanks for any responses. If I haven't been clear its from ignorance so help me out and ask me a question if I need to elaborate.

Answer 1

I added a conf file at /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf

john@ubuntu:~$ more /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
# Define the user we should use when spawning R Shiny processes
run_as shiny;

# Define a top-level server which will listen on a port
server {
  # Instruct this server to listen on port 3838
  #listen 3838 127.0.0.1;
  listen 3838;

  location /userApps {
    user_apps;
    directory_index on;
  }
}

Then for example user john would just need to have a Shinyapps directory in their home directory. This was the case for [2014-03-18 17:43:01.113] [INFO] shiny-server - Shiny Server v0.4.0.15 (Node.js v0.10.21) maybe different now.