Administrator Guide Lacks Bookmarking Directory Information

[DarioS]

Presently, the Administrator's Guide has no details about customising the bookmarks directory. The server fails to start if the directory can't be written to.

[2016-09-15 12:54:57.095] [ERROR] shiny-server - Bookmark state directory creation failed: /var/lib/shiny-server/bookmarks

Then, an error message is shown in green font, which should only be used for success messages.

[2016-09-15 12:54:57.096] [INFO] shiny-server - Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization.

[jcheng5]

Thanks for the bug report! Are you running your Shiny Server as a root or non-root user?

[DarioS]

Actually, the server does start, but the Shiny applications don't, to correct the first statement.

I am running as a non-root user with Shiny Server installed from source into a non-system directory.

Also, I used the git clone instructions from your Wiki article, but the version isn't v1.4.4.807 like for the DEB package, but 1.4.4.0:

[2016-09-15 14:37:29.958] [INFO] shiny-server - Shiny Server v1.4.4.0 (Node.js v0.10.46)

Is the version string wrong or have I really downloaded an outdated version of the server with git clone?

[wch]

You should be able to use bookmark_state_dir. It's described here:
https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server/blob/cf0bf13/config/shiny-server-rules.config#L171-L176

However, it looks like it's not yet in the published admin guide.

[wch]

It looks like we have to update the Shiny Server Pro docs for it to show up in the published documents. Until then, we can keep this issue open.