Stat-Shiny MiServer

Summary

The Stat-Shiny Miserver is setup and used by LSA Statistics for their Stats250 class. This server is used for running open source rstudio-server and shiny apps from Posit.

Environment

Setup and managed by ITS MiServer

Running RHEL 9

Hostname: stat-shiny.miserver.it.umich.edu

CNAME: shiny.stat.lsa.umich.edu

Directions 

The Rstudio-server that is running on this server can be accessed from both https://stat-shiny.miserver.it.umich.edu or https://shiny.stat.lsa.umich.edu

The shiny apps server can be accessed from both https:stat-shiny.miserver.it.umich.edu/shiny or https://shiny.stat.lsa.umich.edu/shiny

Configuration

This server is setup to run and use nginx for http to https reverse proxy to route http://stat-shiny.miserver.it.umich.edu:8787 to https://stat-shiny.miserver.it.umich.edu

The configuration file that controls the nginx reverse proxy is located in /etc/nginx/conf.d/rstudio.conf

The rstudio-server is setup to listen on port 8787.

The configuration file that controls the rstudio-server is located in /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf

External resources

Link to admin log for stat-shiny in our Randall google drive: stat-shiny