Why can't I log into the RStudio Server session running on my EC2 instance?

[brooksambrose]

@aculich set me up with RStudio Server running on my instance (we'll create documentation for that elsewhere if you want to do it too). I tried to log in again later and it wasn't working! I forgot that I'd set the security group using the MyIP option, so when my IP changed EC2 wouldn't let me through. I was a little confused because my server said it was listening and all looked good from inside the instance.

I changed my IP using the menu (screen below) and it worked like a charm! Will I have to go into the EC2 console every time I log in though? What if I want collaborators to access RStudio Server and I don't know their IPs?

[paciorek]

Just a comment that Rstudio-server is now in BCE-2015-fall (about to be released) and it starts by default. So all a user needs to do is this:

1. in the terminal after logging into the instance change the password for the ubuntu user to something that the you know:
   sudo /usr/bin/passwd ubuntu

2. Using a browser on your local machine, go to
   http://<instance_ip>:8787
   where <instance_ip> is public IP of the instance as seen in the EC2 instances window of the AWS console. Login using the 'ubuntu' username and the password you set above in step 1.