I have a shiny app hosted on shinyapps.io under the professional plan. This includes the benefit of adding custom URL to access the app.
I also have a wordpress website (lets say example.com).
I tried adding example.com/shiny_app as a URL for the app through the shinyapps.io admin console.
This did not work (which was expected, it cannot be that simple 
).
I wanted to know what are all the steps make this work.
PS: I don't have much knowledge about wordpress or deploying apps over the web.
Hello! For the custom domain to work, you will also need to configure a CNAME as described in the docs here: shinyapps.io Documentation - Applications
sam
Hi @Shardul, welcome to the forum!
If I can restate your question, you have a Wordpress blog and would like to have a Shiny app as one of its pages (so they all look like they are the same site)? Or do you have a Wordpress blog with a domain and you'd like to re-use the same domain to also point to the Shiny app (but don't care if the Shiny app looks different than the Wordpress blog)?
Hi @randyzwitch thanks for replying!
To put it simply, right now to access the shiny app, users have to navigate to accountname.shinyapps.io/app_name. However, since I have a wordpress website example.com, I would like for users to go to example.com/app_name to use the Shiny app. I don't really care if the Shiny app looks different from the wordpress website.
In that case, I believe your only choice would be to create a subdomain like apps.example.com at your domain provider, then point it at the shinyapps.io app as the docs that @samp linked to indicate.
The only way you can get the behavior you are after (AFAIK, without a lot of extra servers/setup) is to iframe the Shiny app as a page in Wordpress . That's not ideal compared to using a subdomain, as the iframe wouldn't allow you to show the app full-page.
Best,
Randy
@randyzwitch and samp thank you for the solutions! I will check with my domain provider to create a sub-domain and configure a CNAME record.
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