Host an app at home location of Shiny server - shiny-server

Question

I installed my Shiny server and it is working fine with multiple app under this directory:
/srv/shiny-server/app1
/srv/shiny-server/app2
I can use www.mydomain.com/app1 to access my app.
But when I use www.mydomain.com it shows the default shiny server app with the example app.
All I want is when I go to www.mydomain.com I can see app1, how can I make that happen?
Thank you

Answer 1

As the other answer mentioned, you can edit the locationconstruct of /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf.
Remove or comment out the site_dir and directory_index lines. Leave the log_dir line -- a log_dir is required within your first location construct. Add an app_dir line with the path to your app.
This works with the sample apps:
1) Remove the index.html file from /srv/shiny-server/
2) Edit the location section of /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf to look like this:
location / {
# Host app at base directory
app_dir /srv/shiny-server/sample-apps/hello;
# Log all Shiny output to files in this directory
log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
}
}

Answer 2

from: http://docs.rstudio.com/shiny-server/
modify your /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
server {
...
# Define the location '/specialApp'
location /specialApp {
# Run this location in 'app_dir' mode, which will host a single Shiny
# Application available at '/srv/shiny-server/myApp'
app_dir /srv/shiny-server/myApp
}
# Define the location '/otherApps'
location /otherApps {
# Run this location in 'site_dir' mode, which hosts the entire directory
# tree at '/srv/shiny-server/apps'
site_dir /srv/shiny-server/apps;
}
...
}