opencpu cloud server installation guide on ubuntu 16.04 - r

Question

Would anyone know or like to share their note on installing opencpu cloud server on ubuntu 16.04?
I thought it is easy, but we saw many error here and there when following the instructions. I am new to opencpu. And, I don't have much experience on apache and nignx.
Here is the long story:
I created a new and clean ubuntu 16.04 server from microsoft azure vm, and installed opencpu cloud server following:
# Requires Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) or 16.04 (Xenial)
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:opencpu/opencpu-1.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
# Installs OpenCPU server
sudo apt-get install -y opencpu
The server reported insserv error when running opencpu init script
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg
We then did some goolge and fix around, we got apache2 running, but when called:
curl http://localhost/ocpu/info
received 404 error.
FYI, the single user server runs fine.

Answer 1

The solution we found is that opencpu need mod_R to be turned on from apache2:
sudo a2enmod R
You need first to change to dir:
/etc/apache2/mods-available
And, make sure R.load file exists.
After running a2enmod command, should see a link to R.load (R module) in
/etc/apache2/mods-enable

Answer 2

Thank you y g for your question and response .. I had the same problem i try what you have mentioned in your comment but
curl http://localhost/cpu/info
takes along time without no response.
Thank you.

Answer 3

I used opencpu 1.5 works without bugs on ubuntu 16.04
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:opencpu/opencpu-1.5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Install R and then install opencpu
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
sudo apt-get install -y opencpu
Also you should probably install Rstudio for IDE access
sudo apt-get install rstudio-server
To login to R you'll need to make a new user - follow the prompts
sudo adduser myname
Now just to make sure its all working
sudo service opencpu restart
sudo service rstudio-server restart
And try something like to check if its working
curl -L -v localhost/ocpu/library/
which should return a list of packages now installed on Ubuntu like this
Final Screenshot