Now that we we have a my-secret project folder in our Dropbox, we want to delete it! Instead we want a “symlink” to our Jekyll app’s _site/ folder. This connection will create a new folder in your Dropbox: ~/Dropbox/Apps/heroku/my-secret (the name of your app). Under the Deploy tab, click Dropbox and connect your account. Let’s pretend we named it my-secret, once created it would be available at.

Create a new Heroku AppĬreate a new Heroku App. Open the site, click the red plus icon, and you can share a file or files using a unique link or a six-digit code. This example is Jekyll specific but could be modified to fit any static site generator. Its simple, fast, and free (for the basics, anyway). We’ve come across something relatively simple that uses Dropbox to sync a Jekyll site to Heroku. We need a workflow that is flexible, almost disposable, and could even show a different “experimental” branch at a whim. We could setup some complicated post-commit hook/Capistrano system, or pin ourselves to a certain SaaS provider, but none of those have sat well with us and seem overly complicated. Recommend Netlify for easy static site deployments.Īt Paravel, we frequently run into issues where we need to share password protected sites with clients. UPDATE: Heroku has removed Dropbox Sync support.

Password protect folder on dropbox