Shiny App unable to start on shiny server

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Megh Vidani picture Megh Vidani · Apr 11, 2016 · Viewed 9k times · Source

I want to deploy a Shiny app on the Shiny server but not able to access the app from the local server URL.

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This is the output of /var/log/shiny-server.log:

[2016-04-11 21:39:24.302] [INFO] shiny-server - Starting listener on 0.0.0.0:3838
[2016-04-11 21:42:29.564] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:42:29.570] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:43:15.156] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:43:15.163] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:43:28.593] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:43:28.604] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:43:54.549] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:51:52.528] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:52:20.004] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:52:20.020] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:52:26.843] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:56:10.938] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.
[2016-04-11 21:56:10.946] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.

What is the problem?

Answer

Nick picture Nick · Nov 20, 2019

I have run into this situation before when my R code was failing. Since I write my R code on a windows machine and run my shiny server on ubuntu, some packages work fine in on windows but fail in ubuntu or if I forget to install the package on the ubuntu machine. To find out when that's happening you have to go to the apps log not the servers log.

There should be a log specific to your app in:

\var\log\shiny-server\YourAppName-20191112-170851-44977.log

The numbers after App Name have to do with the timestamp of when the app tried to run. This log file will contain the R output if there are any errors with specific packages or your R code causing the app to fail.

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