nginx conf for rstudio and shiny (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/)

nginx.conf

# via https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200552326-Running-RStudio-Server-with-a-Proxy

user nginx;
worker_processes 4;
# daemon off;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}


http {

  map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
      default upgrade;
      ''      close;
    }

  server {
    listen 80;
    
    
    location /rstudio/ {
      rewrite ^/rstudio/(.*)$ /$1 break;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8787;
      proxy_redirect http://localhost:8787/ $scheme://$host/rstudio/;
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
      proxy_read_timeout 20d;
    }
  }

}

rserver.conf

# Server Configuration File
auth-minimum-user-id=999

tail of access.log

192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:58 -0800] "GET /rstudio/auth-public-key HTTP/1.1" 200 263 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:58 -0800] "POST /rstudio/auth-do-sign-in HTTP/1.1" 302 37 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:58 -0800] "GET /rstudio/ HTTP/1.1" 302 49 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/auth-sign-in HTTP/1.1" 200 2157 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/rstudio.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/js/encrypt.min.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/images/rstudio.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/images/buttonLeft.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/images/buttonRight.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"
192.137.111.15 - - [27/Jan/2016:15:33:59 -0800] "GET /rstudio/images/buttonTile.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4"

tail of error.log

2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/auth-public-key", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/auth-public-key HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 rewritten data: "/auth-public-key", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/auth-public-key HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/auth-do-sign-in", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "POST /rstudio/auth-do-sign-in HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 rewritten data: "/auth-do-sign-in", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "POST /rstudio/auth-do-sign-in HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/ HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 rewritten data: "/", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/ HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/auth-sign-in", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/auth-sign-in HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 rewritten data: "/auth-sign-in", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/auth-sign-in HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/rstudio.css", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/rstudio.css HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 rewritten data: "/rstudio.css", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/rstudio.css HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *18 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/js/encrypt.min.js", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/js/encrypt.min.js HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *18 rewritten data: "/js/encrypt.min.js", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/js/encrypt.min.js HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/images/rstudio.png", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/rstudio.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *12 rewritten data: "/images/rstudio.png", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/rstudio.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *18 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/images/buttonLeft.png", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/buttonLeft.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *18 rewritten data: "/images/buttonLeft.png", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/buttonLeft.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *22 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/images/buttonTile.png", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/buttonTile.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *22 rewritten data: "/images/buttonTile.png", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/buttonTile.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *24 "^/rstudio/(.*)$" matches "/rstudio/images/buttonRight.png", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/buttonRight.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"
2016/01/27 15:55:10 [notice] 45960#0: *24 rewritten data: "/images/buttonRight.png", args: "", client: 192.137.111.15, server: , request: "GET /rstudio/images/buttonRight.png HTTP/1.1", host: "baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net", referrer: "http://baaqmd-emissions-inventory.cloudapp.net/rstudio/auth-sign-in"

$ sudo rstudio-server verify-installation
rstudio-server stop/waiting
28 Jan 2016 15:56:26 [rsession-rstudio-server] ERROR system error 13 (Permission denied) [message=User 'rstudio-server' has id 999, which is lower than the minimum user id of 1000 (this is controlled by the the auth-minimum-user-id rserver option)]; OCCURRED AT: int main(int, char* const*) /home/ubuntu/rstudio/src/cpp/session/SessionMain.cpp:3134; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char* const*) /home/ubuntu/rstudio/src/cpp/session/SessionMain.cpp:3142
rstudio-server start/running, process 60766