Webhosting with Dropbox and Apache

Why would anyone need to host a website with dropbox? Well we needed to, as the only developer was working from home, and the internet speed was real slow, so Remote Access was out of the list of options. So came an idea, to host a website with the help of Dropbox, where the developer will keep on developing and the site will keep on updating.

Step 1 - Create the directory structure in dropbox, similar to the directory structure you would have created in your Apache Public Folder. Let's call is Drop-Dir

Step 2 - Create a SOFT LINK to the Drop-Dir (from step 1) in the Public folder of Apache

Step 3 - Setting up permissions - You need to set the Permission of Drop-Dir to 755 (recursively), the permission of the Parent Folders of Drop-Dir to 755 (recursively).

You are good to go, as soon as any of the files update in Dropbox your website will be upto-date, enjoy working from anywhere in the world with the worst internet speed.