I don’t use Dropbox, Google Drive, or any such similar sites but the short answer to your question is “I doubt it”. And when you say “share such a file”, I assume you mean to share all of the web pages created by Legacy. You can certainly share your family database file (.fdb) but unless they have the Legacy program, then can’t open it. You can certainly share a GEDCOM file (.GED) but once again unless the other person has a GEDCOM viewing program, they can’t open it. And the whole idea is to create web pages within Legacy and then to share them somehow allowing anybody with a web browser to open and view everything.
Without sounding too geeky, merely sharing a complete set of Legacy created files on Dropbox or other sites would most likely fail for two reasons. The first is that the Dropbox server knows nothing about HTML language. The seconds is due to “relative addressing versus absolute addressing”. In other words, others could certain open up your main index.html file but within that index.html file, there are links to other people, links to photos, links to other pages, etc . and all those links look something like this, “/graphics/image.jpg”. For example, in my own web pages that were created by Legacy, here is a typical line which shows relative addressing in use. Notice the slashes in the link to the image source (img src). This addressing tells the web server where to go to find that picture. <br clear=right><a href="./pictures/a2_1_lightfoot,_frank_sr__-_1985.jpg" TARGET="_blank"><img src="./pictures/a2_1_lightfoot,_frank_sr__-_1985.jpg" align=right width="200" height="300" border="0" vspace="10" title="Franklin Lee Lightfoot, Sr. (6328 KB) That is relative addressing which Legacy uses because it assumes that all the files are together on one root folder with subfolders all on a hard drive, even if that hard drive is on your own computer or a hard drive on a web server. Drop Box is not a web server but rather a file server. So maybe if you went into your Legacy created web pages and changed all the paths to something like “http://www.dropbox.com/smith/sources/1940_census_surprise_arizona.jpg”, it would be a monumental task that I’m fairly certain just won’t work unless your files reside on a web server that was configured to …well…serve up html pages. See more info about “Relative addressing vs. Absolute addressing at http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/absolute-vs-relative-pathslinks/. (Warning: Geek stuff ahead.) HTH Brian in CA From: Jerry in Michigan [mailto:bearjerca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 12:23 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet Question for you Brian. I use TNG on the web because of the ability to make immediate changes that show up instantly. Still wishing Legacy could be available as a web-based product, but I doubt that will ever happen. But your point about making a DVD for family intrigues me. Just wondering, is it feasible to share such a file on Dropbox, Google Drive, etc., so you don't have to mail DVDs to anyone? Thanks, Jerry Boor MerriamFamilyTree.org On 3/24/2015 11:11 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: http://www.the-lightfoots.com/  From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 8:52 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet  I'd like to see some Legacy-created genealogy websites. Can some of you post your urls??  I've uploaded .gedcoms to Ancestry and a bunch of little .gedcoms to Wikitree, which I'm enjoying a lot -- espcially enjoying doing the bios, but converting from a Legacy .gedcom to Wikitree takes some doing -- in part because the idea at Wikitree, as you may know, is to have each individual in only one time -- so there's a lot of merging with other people's entries.  Here's the url for my Wikitree entry: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prickett-122  Pat    On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot <br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: The Legacy article about how to create and publish web pages is straight-forward but the only thing that I would caution users about is this statement: "1. Before you try putting your Web pages on the Internet, contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your ISP will make certain that you have server space for your pages and will tell you what directory to use." I would now venture to guess that the majority of ISPs in the US no longer offer free web space for its customers. It gets a little bit complicated but you end up with two real choices. If they still do, the amount of space is probably very limited and I've seen URLs that end up looking like "www.userpages.wavecable.net/smith_genealogy". The first alternative is to use some of the free web space offered by many online web space providers (which have nothing to do with your ISP). Just google "free web space" and pick one that suits you. Bear in mind that your finished web site address will probably look something like "www.freespace.com/smith_genealogy" or some other similar name. This is because you do not own your own domain name and therefore your web site has to be hosted by some other domain. In this example, freewebspace.com would be the domain. "Smith_genealogy" is really nothing more than a folder on the hard drive of that web server. The amount of hard drive space you get varies widely and usually this free space comes at a price of having advertising appear on your pages. Sometimes you can pay to remove the advertising but then it's no longer free, is it? Another means of getting your web pages on the Internet involves you actually registering your own domain name and then have some provider host your domain on their web servers. For example, if you were to register "Smith_Genealogy.com", and then paid money to have it hosted on somebody's web server, your web pages would end up with a URL that would look like this: "www.smith_genealogy.com". Looks a lot more impressive, doesn't it. There are numerous providers of web hosting services. Just google "free web hosting" or "web hosting". You'll find that the price is sometimes so low, it makes it the only real way to go. For example, look at www.hostmonster.com which for $3.95 per month you get a free domain name, unlimited web space, unlimited email accounts, MySQL databases, CGI-BIN, PHP 5, and other features. Actually there is a third means of getting your Legacy created web pages out. After the creation process completes in Legacy, simply burn the entire web contents to a DVD and send a copy to your friends and relatives. All they have to do is point their browser to the main "index.html" file on the disc, and then they end up looking at a "web site on a disc". Hey, it works! If anyone has any specific questions about these processes, contact me offlist and I'll be glad to assist. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 6:41 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet See the article on our website at http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00965 Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:51 PM, <wedd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Help! > I have created my web pages now how do I put that on the Internet? > Thanks for any help you can give me. 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