I published a partially finished course today to make sure I could share it with my staff using Google Drive. I followed the instructions to the letter several times, but each time I keep getting an error 404 from google. This happens on any machine and on every browser. I republished several times, replaced the folders in drive and even tested it from my local machine. The local machine test worked perfectly, but still nothing on google drive. Any suggestions to what I am doing wrong?
I remember reading a post just in the last few days and I think Ashley commented (not sure) - there were issues with Google drive - not sure if its not being supported anymore...sorry not much help but am sure someone will jump in with a link to the post or maybe search the forum.
Another user shared recently that they saw Google Drive was no longer hosting content as a web server - although I have not seen documentation as such from Google. I suspect that is the thread that Wendy is referring too. If you're unable to load the content to Google Drive, have you tried any of the other hosting options mentioned here?
Maybe I am doing something wrong because I tried DropBox and all that happens there is when I share the link to the story.html file, it brings up a prompt to download the html file instead of actually running the storyline
That may be a browser setting - what happens when you download the html file, are you able to run the story.html? Could you share a link to where your published output is hosted on Dropbox so that we could try and take a look?
I see the same behavior with that link. This older thread has a lot of great screenshots in terms of what it *should* look like in Dropbox to help you narrow it down. Here are directions from one of our Community managers on how to upload it.
I figured out Google Drive. It was my company Google account that was blocking the ability to host. I switched to my personal account and it works great.
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Hi Jeremy
I remember reading a post just in the last few days and I think Ashley commented (not sure) - there were issues with Google drive - not sure if its not being supported anymore...sorry not much help but am sure someone will jump in with a link to the post or maybe search the forum.
Hi Jeremy,
Another user shared recently that they saw Google Drive was no longer hosting content as a web server - although I have not seen documentation as such from Google. I suspect that is the thread that Wendy is referring too. If you're unable to load the content to Google Drive, have you tried any of the other hosting options mentioned here?
Maybe I am doing something wrong because I tried DropBox and all that happens there is when I share the link to the story.html file, it brings up a prompt to download the html file instead of actually running the storyline
Hi Jeremy,
That may be a browser setting - what happens when you download the html file, are you able to run the story.html? Could you share a link to where your published output is hosted on Dropbox so that we could try and take a look?
It downloads the file to my downloads folder and when I open the file it brings up a blank browser. Here is the link to the file from dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/znpj3ssk3yv6ug6/story.html?dl=0
Hi Jeremy,
I see the same behavior with that link. This older thread has a lot of great screenshots in terms of what it *should* look like in Dropbox to help you narrow it down. Here are directions from one of our Community managers on how to upload it.
For Google Drive, are you following the steps here?
I figured out Google Drive. It was my company Google account that was blocking the ability to host. I switched to my personal account and it works great.
Awesome - thanks for the update Jeremy. A good thing to keep in mind regarding the different Google Accounts!
Hi I do have the same problem, I'm using my personal account but still have the error 404.
Can you help on that?
here are my links : https://drive.google.com/host/0By2GpCRmMgU-eTZUdlRFaWFLQW8
regards
Update -
it works now, I just had to change https://drive.google.com into https://googledrive.com.
I found the solution by diging deeply in the orginal post https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-share-your-e-learning-course-for-free-with-google-drive?page=2#comments
I had to use my personal drive, when you're using the company drive you do not have the possibility to share with everyone, only with the company.
Thanks for your help anyway....
Regards
Jean
Thanks for sharing the update here Jean.
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