Comments on: “Tinyurl”-ify DropBox Public Links With .htaccess http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/ Enhancing your Ubuntu experience! Fri, 11 May 2012 05:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Christer Edwards http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/#comment-10340 Christer Edwards Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:50:51 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=844#comment-10340 Pet - your server won't download anything from Dropbox. All it is doing is abstracting the URL to something more manageable and forwarding the user directly to the Dropbox share. Pet – your server won’t download anything from Dropbox. All it is doing is abstracting the URL to something more manageable and forwarding the user directly to the Dropbox share.

]]> By: Pet http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/#comment-10338 Pet Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:40:44 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=844#comment-10338 Great Tip. I have a question if I follow your .htaccess trick will my server download the file first from dropbox and then stream it to the user? The reason I'm asking is because I have pretty heavy files on my public folder and I do not want to have to pay for additional bandwidth. Chers, Pet Great Tip.

I have a question if I follow your .htaccess trick will my server download the file first from dropbox and then stream it to the user?

The reason I’m asking is because I have pretty heavy files on my public folder and I do not want to have to pay for additional bandwidth.

Chers,

Pet

]]> By: Francesco http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/#comment-7768 Francesco Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:33:16 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=844#comment-7768 What about one more line? RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/012345/index.html [L] Just check to have an index.html file into your public folder in dropbox; seems to work fine here. Ciao, f. What about one more line?

RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/012345/index.html [L]

Just check to have an index.html file into your public folder in dropbox; seems to work fine here.

Ciao, f.

]]> By: Livio http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/#comment-6293 Livio Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:59:30 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=844#comment-6293 This is great :) . This is great :) .

]]> By: Christer Edwards http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/#comment-6270 Christer Edwards Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:46:51 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=844#comment-6270 @Vinicius - if you right-click a file within Dropbox/Public and select Dropbox > Copy Public Link, you can then paste that link anywhere. The userID you're looking for is the 6 digits just after /u/. @Vinicius – if you right-click a file within Dropbox/Public and select Dropbox > Copy Public Link, you can then paste that link anywhere. The userID you’re looking for is the 6 digits just after /u/.

]]> By: Vinicius Cordeiro http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/08/tinyurl-ify-dropbox-public-links-with-htaccess/#comment-6268 Vinicius Cordeiro Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:33:08 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=844#comment-6268 Is it working yet? I couldn't find my USER ID... Is it working yet? I couldn’t find my USER ID…

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