Help with running from Docker image install about clustvis HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi Richard, yes, you are close. Some changes are needed:

• please use -p 3838:3838 instead of -p :3838 when running the container
• did you literally enter http:/0.0.0.0.3838? There should be double slash and a colon like http://0.0.0.0:3838. Or, if it still doesn't work then you can try http://host.docker.internal:3838 or http://127.0.0.1:3838.

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Hi, thank you for getting back to me. I figured it out. The problem was that I really didn’t understand how WSL (Windows Subsytem of Linux) worked with the install commands. I now recognise that I could download the docker image, but I hadn’t really performed the subsequent steps because they weren’t working in command prompt (or powershell) natively as UNIX commands (at least not verbatim).

How I installed and ran a local server on a Windows machine:

Install Docker for windows.

Install Ubuntu for Windows 10 (windows store). Set up your user name and password when prompted.

I couldn’t use it native with “docker” commands from the Ubuntu command line because it needed to be configured as WSL2.
So I converted Ubuntu on WSL1 to WSL2. I did this with the commands described here:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-on-wsl-2-is-generally-available

Once this was done, I enabled Ubuntu within the docker app by going to Settings>Resources>WSL integration>turn on Ubuntu

After this, from the Ubuntu command line I inputted the following:

sudo docker pull taunometsalu/clustvis
mkdir ~/customClustvis/
cd ~/customClustvis/
wget https://github.com/taunometsalu/ClustVis/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
chmod -R go+rx ~/customClustvis/
sudo docker run -d
--name customClustvis
-p 3838:3838
-v ~/customClustvis/ClustVis-master/:/srv/shiny-server/:ro
taunometsalu/clustvis

Then Docker ran the customClustvis enrironment and I could access it using http://host.docker.internal:3838

Thank you again for this excellent tool and your help!

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Glad to hear that you got it working!

And thanks for the detailed steps, maybe they are helpful for somebody else using WSL.

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