Cannot connect to rstudio ubuntu server

Question

I started with a bare-metal server, installed ubuntu server 13.04, then apache, then php5. I have installed rstudio and when I use the command to verify installation I get rstudio-server start/running, process <number> where <number> changes each time. However, when I go to <server-ip>:8787 my browser tells me it cannot connect.

I am told by admin that 8787 is open. I also used netstat -lanp | grep 8787 and got the following tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8787 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2963/rserver and nothing else.

Answer 1

I figured this out in the end by using apache to proxy port 8787 to port 80

Answer 2

trouble shoot 3:

1, open firewall for port 8787

sudo ufw allow 8787

2, check internet explore

lynx http://<ip>:8787

3, force restart and try again

rstudio-server restart

if you still can not connect to Rstudio server:

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Answer 3

Got a similar problem today. I could connect to Rstudio-server by localhost:8787, but it failed when using http://<\ip>:8787, both from the server machine and from other computers.
The solution is simple in my case:
In the rserver configuration doc /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf, there was a line:
www-address=127.0.0.1
just delete or comment it out. Then everything works well.
Have no idea when and how this line was added though. It shouldn't be there by default according to the official document.