Security in an R Shiny Application

Question

I want to publish an R Shiny web application (http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/) on the web, but I want to password protect it so that only people with credentials can view what I h

Answer 1

This could be viewed as an HTTP requirement rather than a Shiny feature. If so, you could look into first implementing an HTTP authentication, and once the credentials are verified, you can redirect to your Shiny app URL.

• Here's a blog post that explains setting up simple authentication for Apache Tomcat.

• Also, take a look at this article for setting it up in IIS

Searching SO or the Web for basic authentication should get you a few useful links and get you closer.