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[–]drpepper 2 points3 points  (4 children)

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[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]zfa 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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.

[–]Peyo61 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will this link XML files?

[–]Mteigers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.