title: Trying to host my shiny app for everyone to see with shiny-server
body: <h2>EDIT</h2>
  
  <p>Since no one answered I guess I may not be stating my problem the right way, so I decided to give it a go and add <a href="https://youtu.be/_eIwgntFPOM" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this youtube video</a> as part of the question. Hope it clarifies my question.</p>
  
  <p>Hello Everyone:</p>
  
  <p>I am a longtime R and shiny user, but a first time shiny-server user with little experience. I am trying to  host a shiny app, and I was trying to follow the discussion in this <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/shiny-discuss/cBrh2abDvAs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">thread</a> but still haven’t been able to figure it out, so far I changed the listening port from 3838 to 80 as recommended in the thread and also tried to access the "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" folder as shown in the thread, but it does not exist in my ubuntu.</p>
  
  <p>My app runs fine locally and I can see it by typing <a href="http://146.155.169.145/Example/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://146.155.169.145/Example/</a> in my browser, but  when I try to access it from other computers I can’t, it says connection timed out as shown bellow. As stated above, I have a lot of experience in R and  Shiny, but I do not know much about hosting. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rICpz.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rICpz.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>My shiny-server.conf is the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code># Instruct Shiny Server to run applications as the user "shiny"
  run_as shiny;
  
  # Define a server that listens on port 3838
  server {
    listen 80;
  
    # Define a location at the base URL
    location / {
  
      # Host the directory of Shiny Apps stored in this directory
      site_dir /srv/shiny-server;
  
      # Log all Shiny output to files in this directory
      log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
  
      # When a user visits the base URL rather than a particular application,
      # an index of the applications available in this directory will be shown.
      directory_index on;
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I am using ubuntu 16.04</p>
  
  <p>Let me know if I can give you more information</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>