The Shiny Server installer will automatically install a systemd service called shiny-server, which will cause the shiny-server program to be started and stopped automatically when the machine boots up and shuts down. The shiny-server service will also be launched automatically when the installer has successfully installed the program.

To start or stop the server manually, you can use the following commands.

sudo systemctl start shiny-server

sudo systemctl stop shiny-server

You can restart the server with:

sudo systemctl restart shiny-server

You can check the status of the shiny-server service using:

sudo systemctl status shiny-server

And finally, you can use the enable/disable commands to control whether Shiny Server should be run automatically at boot time:

sudo systemctl enable shiny-server

sudo systemctl disable shiny-server

To start the server, run the following commands, respectively.

sudo start shiny-server

sudo shiny-server

To start the server, run the following commands, respectively.

sudo stop shiny-server

sudo groupadd shinyUsers sudo usermod -a -G shinyUsers drew

/etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf

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

	 location / {
		 user_dirs;
		 
		 # Define a location at the base URL

	 members_of shinyUsers;
    
		 #site_dir /srv/shiny-server;
		 #log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;

	  directory_index on;
    }
	  
# add user to the shinyUsers group so all shiny-apps in /home/$USER/ShinyApps/ will be available on this server at the URL http://server.com/$USER/ShinyApps.