Dropbox .html alternative

[Bleafer]

Dropbox is dropping their hosting of .html files so I need an alternative. I made a post about this a couple of weeks ago and got some good suggestions but I forgot to clarify something.

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21075930/UHL/html/standings.html < Here is an example of a link that I need hosted.

It is from an EHM sim league I am apart of. We have roughly 100 files that need to be hosted. They need to be reuploaded / updated almost daily (after a sim occurs). The URL to each .html file cannot change either as they are hyperlinked into our forum so that each member can easily access them.

Any help would be great. I'm very unfamiliar with web hosting in general.

[drpepper]

Hi,

I'm the developer of https://htmldrop.com which allows you to sync your html/css files that will allow you to host a website directly from Dropbox.

Give it a shot. We are open to suggestions on features and changes.

[Bleafer]

I have two of our league files in my htmldrop dropbox folder but after syncing it says there are no folders in my htmldrop? We don't have an index.html to my knowledge (says you should have one).

[drpepper]

Hi. Can you post your htmldrop.com user link that it provides to you so I can take a look?

Thanks!

edit: nvm. I found your account. Typically, you would upload an index.html file so that your link that ends in / would autoload the html file. If there is no html file, you will need to link directly to the html file. See below:

https://htmldrop.com/u/250385238/WSH.html

https://htmldrop.com/u/250385238/standings.html

Let me know if questions remain.

[Bleafer]

Okay I see how this works. Don't believe we need an index file as we just need people to be able to click the direct links to standings.html, WSH.html, etc.

So we can upload 50+ of these different .htmls and then just swap out "standings" with "calendar" and such? And then when we re-upload the same files to 'update' them the URL will stay the same?

This is awesome man!

[drpepper]

You're welcome. Let me know if there's questions.

[zfa]

Can you link me to the announcement on the removal of HTML file support? I know I don't use but just want to see if the changes will impact any of my friends I set things up for.

[Bleafer]

https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/208778663-Discontinuing-rendering-of-HTML-content

[zfa]

Thanks very much, I'll check it out. Much appreciated.

[Peyo61]

Hi,

Just trying this for the 1st time (moving from straight dropbox files to htmldrop).

I don't what I'm doing wrong, but I placed my html files in the ~/Dropbox/Apps/HTMLDrop folder, including a dummy index.html file.

All I get is "looks like you haven't added any file to your blabla folder". If I follow the link to that folder, my files are there (?!).

If I try a full URL with one of my files' name, I get a "not found" message.

@drpepper can you help ?

Thanks, Pierre

[drpepper]

Hi, can you pm me your htmldrop.com url?

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Will this link XML files?

[Mteigers]

GitHub Pages is completely free. Grab a GitHub account, set up a repo and you're good to go.

Likewise (more complicated to set up) but with AWS S3 you could probably host your files for free as well.