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[fredx181]

Hi Toni,

[saintless]

Hi, Fred

[fredx181]

Hi Toni,
Here's how to make a folder in google drive behave as a webhost:
In this example from an empty google drive (I just created a new account and have 15GB again!)
Click on the red "Create" button and create a folder:



Ok, I created 'Debdog', right-click on the new folder and choose Share > Share:



New window appears, now change "Private only you can access" to "Public on the web" and click Save.
Then click Done on the previous window:



Then right-click on the new folder and choose "Details and activity" (there's also the "i" button on top right button section)
It probably opens in "Activity" so click on Detalis:



Almost at the bottom of Details under 'HOSTING' you see an https address with 'host' in it:



Now that's the host address of the new shared folder and you can make new folder or upload file inside and add /name-of-subfolder or /filename after the host address.

Btw, [img][/img] works also as you can see.

Fred

[saintless]

Thank you, Fred, great instruction to follow!
15 Gb... I like it already

Toni

[fredx181]

[saintless]

[saintless]

Hi, Stemsee and all interested from experimental boot methods.

Some of your kernels uploaded here for puppy-initrd-boot (in case you need quick link to share them):
https://9eb8f45ca0acc9dd68fbe8a604cd7299aa432000.googledrive.com/host/0B8P7qC27sushWHg2VFB6QTRJLW8/Experimental-boot/
I can't test 64bit but I guess they will work.

Also for Puppy-Rus-A-boot but I need time for translating the boot script and adding some instruction how to use the kernels. I will get back on this when I'm ready.

Toni

[atv]

Toni, Fred, Sergey, William, Sunburnt, Nooby(in absence) and all others

I want you guys to know that the work you have done and are doing is being enjoyed by: Myself and about (80 and growing) others, that are not fortunate enough to be computer literates and do have access to low cost(older)laptops etc.
My two cents is to install and maintain their systems free of charge. This effort of yours makes my task a great deal easier. So thank you all for the job well done. Keep up the good work and enjoy your well deserved holidays.

regards, Andres

[stemsee]

@saintless, Fredx181

That's a very neat way to use google drive. I will have to do that too!


.. sometime...

[saintless]

Hi, Andres, glad to read DebianDog is useful for you and much more people

[fredx181]

[stemsee]

My google drive is like a teenagers bedroom at the moment!!

[fredx181]

[step]

Here follow

• Alternative google hosting folder istructions...
  
• Simplified for EmSee and me - we share the teenager's bedroom approach to google drive
  

By way of a pratical example: sharing a fictitional file, EmSee's next 2GB+ EmSee3.iso release:

• Make a new folder in your google drive, right click its item line, select Shared/everyone can view and write down its sharing link. It will look something like this: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8P7qC27sushWHg2VFB6QTRJLW8&usp=sharing
  
• Now rewrite the sharing address as a direct link by replacing the blue part above with https://googledrive.com/host/ and dropping the red part: https://googledrive.com/host/0B8P7qC27sushWHg2VFB6QTRJLW8
  
• Now append the filename and you are done: https://googledrive.com/host/0B8P7qC27sushWHg2VFB6QTRJLW8/EmSee3.iso
  

Remarks

• You can see that the folder ID stays the same, and publishing a direct link is just a matter or re-writing the url. In fact, you could publish both urls.
  
• When accessing a folder/file via drive.google.com one gets the familiar google drive interface, with thumbnails, previews, and several prompts before one can download a file. (Note that the drive.google.com link to a shared file can't be derived as I showed above for a folder.)
  
• When accessing the file via googledrive.com one gets a file list and direct links, that is, no prompt to download the file!
  
• So with the googledrive.com direct link one can download the file from a script using wget, which can't be done when drive.google.com is used for the link and one has to use a web browser to download. (For instance, I can't download a file larger than 2GB from drive.google.com because my firefox drops out at the 2GB fence. But I could download the same file from googledrive.com with wget, because wget doesn't drop out after 2GB.)
  
• As Fred pointed out, with googledrive.com one can also append the relative path to a file in a sub-folder.
  

The folder ID in my examples corresponds to Toni's DebianDog backup folder.

[saintless]

Thank you, Step!
These google drive tips should go in special thread so more people can use them.

Toni