Saturday, September 21, 2013

How to host your website on Dropbox ?


If you are looking to host your website quickly and easily without paying to any hosting providers, Dropbox is the great place for you.. It takes less than 5 minutes to setup your website. You can publish this site with just txt  files and you don't need to have any knowledge with css, javascript.



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Here is the Steps to host your website on Dropbox

  • Create your Account on Dropbox:  If you don't have an account with Dropbox already , You create one here

  • Login to my Droppages site where you will get to pick a name for your website by logging into DropPages and click SignIn. 


  • It will ask you to authenticate with your Dropbox credentials and once you login you can create your website like yourname.dropopages.com , Here is the site i have created http://beautifulwebsite.droppages.com


  • It creates a simple website displaying Hello World page, To make it a full website, download this website template and copy it under your website folder in Dropbox and make necessary changes to the .txt files under Content folder to modify the text on pages. 


  • After that you can make necessary changes as needed by modifying the Default.html page under Templates folder. 


  • If you don't want to use the url with .droppages.com , you can upgrade your account on my.droppages.com and you can pick your own domain name as increase the Data size as needed. 


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