The person who has the link will be able to open the webpage.ĭropbox links are pretty long and can’t be remembered. The link can be shared with other people. You can right click any file and get the public link under Dropbox menu. The “site” folder will act as the root folder for your static site. Put all your HTML pages inside the “site” folder.

Now create another folder called “site” inside the public folder. Next, you will need to visit this page to enable the public folder on your account. Creating the public folder manuallyĪlthough you can use the services listed above to create your site on Dropbox but if you don’t want to go through the signup process and don’t want to manage your site through anyone else, you can simply follow this guide to create your own hosting on Dropbox without using any tools.Ĭreate a folder named “Public” (if it is not already there) in your Dropbox account. We already have a tutorial on how to use Site44 to host your webpages using Dropbox as the back-end. Site44 is another service very similar to DropPages. You can also pre-built themes of HTML pages. Now click on “Create a new site” button and enter the name of your site, e.g., ĥ. Pressing the Deny button will cancel the signup process.Ĥ. After you sign into your account, you will be greeted with screen where you can press the Allow button in order to proceed. Click the “Sign in” button and give it permission to access your Dropbox account.ģ. This will ask you to sign into your Dropbox account. Follow the steps below to create your website with DropPages.Ģ. The benefit of using DropPages is that it does not restrict any space usage like KISSr and gives you a subdomain () to access your site. Using DropPagesĭropPages is an web application that connects to your Dropbox account to create a site for you. The biggest disadvantage of using KISSr is that even though you are using Dropbox as the backend, it will limit the overall storage and bandwidth of your account. Just go to KISSr site, enter the name you want for your site (you’ll need to start with a sub-domain) and then click on the big Try it button. The advantage of KISSr over other competitors discussed in this article is that it lets you register and use a proper custom domain name instead of using sub-domains or long URLs.

KISSr is a service that lets you host static websites using Dropbox as a web host.

Use dropbox as web server