Shiny Server wont load app

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I am having an incredibly difficult time getting my Shiny app to run in Shiny Server (on Ubuntu 16.04). I followed the instructions on R-Studio's website installing R and Shiny Server on Ubuntu. Running the status command shows that shiny server is running.

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My shiny app (which works fine on my windows machine) is found in the /srv/shiny-server/HealthCheck directory.

I am trying to run this locally (not hosting on an outside web server etc), I have tried many different ways to access the app, but all have failed with either "page not found" errors or "could not connect to.." errors. I have tried accessing the app through these methods in Firefox:

http://localhost:3838/srv/shiny-server/HealthCheck

http://ipaddress:3838/srv/shiny-server/HealthCheck

http://localhost:3838/HealthCheck

http://ipaddress:3838/HealthCheck

I have tried different ports, adding and removing server_name to config file. I have tried turning on logging but nothing ever writes to the /var/log/shiny-server folder, making this hard to troubleshoot.

Any help would be greatly apprecitated. I assume i am making some simple mistake here, but cant seem to figure this one out. Here is my shiny config file:

run_as shiny;

# Define a server that listens on port 3838
server {
      listen 3838;
    server_name localhost;

    location /HealthCheck {
     app_dir /srv/shiny-server/HealthCheck;
    log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
     simple_scheduler 15;
        }
}

preserve_logs true;
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1 Answers

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I figured this out for anyone else who has a similar issue. Specifying the port alone wasn't enough when running as localhost. I also specified the localhost IP and then it worked. 

listen 3838 127.0.0.1;