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[jwd49]

Thanks for this helpful post! I tried it out and it worked great. Do you know of a way to password-protect (or otherwise restrict) a website published through Dropbox?

[redgeminipa]

It works for me, too! It even keeps the 4 pages for my site - clickable by the "Home, Contact, etc." as before.

Thanks for the tips!

So, when I need to make changes to my site, just do this over again?

[jschaffe]

I'd reverse steps 3 & 4, then change the new step 4 to:

4(was 3). In the Folder Location section choose the Public folder within your Dropbox folder as the folder location. You can leave the Website URL location blank for now.

(You might want to create a folder in Public, for example "Web", and choose that instead for all your iWeb sites.)

This makes updating a site much easier directly from iWeb!

[rtye]

Can you do the same thing with other services such as Skydrive and Google Drive?

[DarkAges]

Excellent. Thanks for the help. Let me add a complication. My iWeb/MobileMe Web site has a URL Shell name, I think that's what they call it, so I can have a real URL rather than a www.mobileme/name/xxxxxx.com kind of name, through Go Daddy. Does that still work if moving to DropBox?

[degrees_of_truth]

@rtye: I tested Google Grive and the answer is no. The public link to the index.html file displays the ascii text of the file instead of the formatted main page contents.

This post has been edited by degrees_of_truth: 04 May 2012 - 10:00 AM

[Jeff Battersby]

That is absolutely a valid option and probably a better choice if you want to continue using iWeb to create web pages.

-Jeff

jschaffe, on 04 May 2012 - 07:17 AM, said:

I'd reverse steps 3 & 4, then change the new step 4 to:

4(was 3). In the Folder Location section choose the Public folder within your Dropbox folder as the folder location. You can leave the Website URL location blank for now.

(You might want to create a folder in Public, for example "Web", and choose that instead for all your iWeb sites.)

This makes updating a site much easier directly from iWeb!

[Jeff Battersby]

I do not think that you can password restrict your Dropbox site. The presumption is that you are giving the URL to people you know.

-Jeff

jwd49, on 04 May 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

Thanks for this helpful post! I tried it out and it worked great. Do you know of a way to password-protect (or otherwise restrict) a website published through Dropbox?

[Link33]

Yes this can be done with Go Daddy. I am hosting my personal domain this way.
Try reading this from Apple's Discussion Board:
How to add iWeb site to Godaddy domain while using Dropbox as a host?

Here are a couple of screen grabs of what my GoDaddy interface looked like:
http://dl.dropbox.co...web/forward.png
Click on the "Forward" button and choose "Forward Domain"

http://dl.dropbox.co...paste%20URL.png
Paste the Public URL from Dropbox and choose OK

Hope this helps. Good luck!

DarkAges, on 04 May 2012 - 08:14 AM, said:

Excellent. Thanks for the help. Let me add a complication. My iWeb/MobileMe Web site has a URL Shell name, I think that's what they call it, so I can have a real URL rather than a www.mobileme/name/xxxxxx.com kind of name, through Go Daddy. Does that still work if moving to DropBox?

[daba]

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[Felix001]

rtye, on 04 May 2012 - 07:47 AM, said:

Can you do the same thing with other services such as Skydrive and Google Drive?

I see in a post further down that the answer is "No" for Google Drive.

Hopefully someone will figure out a way to use Google Drive...it's proving to be fast and reliable for the 4½ GB of encrypted files I already have associated with my Google e-mail account. And the monthly cost for extra storage is certainly reasonable when compared to Dropbox.

[garyllito]

Great tip man. Thanks. Seems so easy but never really thought about doing it.