# Interactive apps don't show up in menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [March 13, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353 "2024-03-13T18:02:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![rgbryant](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/rgbryant/32/1025_2.png) [@rgbryant](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/rgbryant)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353/1 "2024-03-13T18:02:46Z")

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Hi,  
I’ve got an OOD 1.6 server running on my cluster and I’m setting up an OOD 3.1 server. I’ve got the bc\_desktop app running and it shows up on my Interactive Apps menu. That works fine, I can launch the desktop and it connects to a compute node. Now I’m moving on to bringing over my interactive apps. When I copy over my RStudio app from the old server to /var/www/ood/apps/sys/RStudio on the new server nothing comes up on the interactive apps menu. The apps are owned by root:root and everything is 755 for directories or 644 for files. All the things like the files and shell menus that exist in that directory work fine, but I can’t see my RStudio app. Any ideas on how to make it populate? I’ve restarted httpd.

Rob

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**Author:** ![jeff.ohrstrom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/jeff.ohrstrom/32/136_2.png) [@jeff.ohrstrom](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/jeff.ohrstrom)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353/2 "2024-03-13T18:05:31Z")

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I’d try to restart your web server in the Help menu at the top right and see if that does anything. You’re intuition about file permissions is correct - so it seems you should be able to read the files - i’m just wondering if the older result was cached.

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**Author:** ![rgbryant](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/rgbryant/32/1025_2.png) [@rgbryant](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/rgbryant)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353/3 "2024-03-13T18:26:51Z")

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I restarted via help, still nothing.  
I’ve tried with another web browser as well.

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**Author:** ![jeff.ohrstrom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/jeff.ohrstrom/32/136_2.png) [@jeff.ohrstrom](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/jeff.ohrstrom)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353/4 "2024-03-13T18:29:59Z")

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OK - it could see the app as being invalid. It does a spot check on the cluster you have enabled. Does this Rstudio application use a cluster that you’ve not setup yet?

Also just as a quick sanity check, I’d hop on that machine as you’re regular non-root user and see if you can `ls` on that directory and the files inside it.That’ll at least confirm that regular users can indeed see the files.

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**Author:** ![rgbryant](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/rgbryant/32/1025_2.png) [@rgbryant](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/rgbryant)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353/5 "2024-03-13T18:39:21Z")

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It was a capitalization error. The old server had the cluster defined as E2, new one is defined as e2. Now it’s showing up. Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/osc/original/2X/b/bae70bd0ed39a3ae769c2108155f4cb3e9da8385.png) [@system](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/interactive-apps-dont-show-up-in-menu/3353/6 "2024-09-09T18:39:51Z")

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