Hosting Project on Google Drive

Hi Kim,

Yup - they still work and you'll just want to make sure you follow the directions as Mike shared, especially in terms of which link is shared for the user to access the course. Are you running into difficulty with hosting there? 

Hi, thanks for your help. Yes, I keep getting a 404 error on the SL 2
project as well as a project I created in SL 1 that actually used to work a
few months ago. I even tried using Chrome. Any other thoughts?

Hi KIm

the problem can be in Google drive itself. It depends if you're using the new or old version.

Try Jennifer's step by step tutorial how to share the files on GD. I hope it helps. 

Thanks Joanna for sharing that here - I hadn't seen Jennifer's post on it.

Kim, I know some users mentioned a new Google drive account didn't allow for hosting, but we have tested that out - and it didn't make a different for us. 

You mentioned a 404 error, which leads me to think it's an issue with the URL as I mentioned. Are you able to share the URL you're linking to? 

Ashley and Joanna, thank you both so much for your help. Jennifer's instructions are great but even after going step-by-step through them...still getting the error. I think I did agree to use Google's new drive yesterday when I first got started not realizing it could be a problem. Is there a way to go back to the old drive? 

Here are the two links. The first one worked several months ago:

www.googledrive.com/host/0BwyvzcUEbM0Ba09lQnctVGg0RUk/0BwyvzcUEbM0BWVdkRVJ5LXlPX0E

www.googledrive.com/host/0BwyvzcUEbM0BfkRzVEROU0l6Z3prZklxbnh2XzhoOGxNbXhKelVwOVJ4ZlhJbTdjbUh5eTQ

Thanks again!

I found this info on how to get back to the old version of the GD:

"To revert back to the old Drive -- Click the Settings Gadget in the upper right corner of Google Drive > Select revert back to classic Drive"

Hi Kim,

It looks like the links may have changed - I was able to use just the first part of your first link, and access the course here. Here is how the link looked:

www.googledrive.com/host/0BwyvzcUEbM0Ba09lQnctVGg0RUk

The second one showed me the title of the course "travel trivia game" but didn't load the page - so I'm unsure what happened to that URL. 

Yay! Success! Thank you ladies so much. I reverted back to the old drive and then just started over from scratch uploading everything, renaming, etc., and now the the link to the travel trivia game works. Not sure if the new drive had anything to do with the issues or not. I'll test that out soon. Could have been any number of things.

Feel free to let me know your thoughts on the game if you have time. My main goal with this was to learn how to create motion paths in SL 2. I may do more with it and build it out more in my spare time down the road. Any suggestions you have would be very welcomed.

Thanks again! Love this place!!!

-Kim

Thanks Kim for the update and I'm glad that you got it working. The new google drive may have changed how links were written or pulled - so it's worth checking in to. 

I have had some work up on my wix site for sometime now and all of sudden the links to my google drive don't work.  I am going to try reverting back to old drive and reload content. I hope it works, what a pain.

I'll let you know.

nope...reverted back to old google, uploaded files again and the links aren't working even by themselves. :( grrrr Any thoughts?

Okay...after  a lot of messing around, switching back and forth from new to old Drive...I finally got something that shows my samples on my site again.  Hope this helps people out as well.

http://googledrive.com/host/ very long file numbers letters/story.swf

The url is just as it was explained before for Goole Drive Storyline hosting with the addition of the boldfaced items above.  Works on my wix site again (for now..ekkk).

I tried it with /index.html since that seemed to make sense, but it didn't work for me so that's how I ended up with the story.swf.  Feel free to try index.html first.  If that works for you, let me know.

Hi Kristine, thanks for the info. I was able to get mine working a few days ago and I'm guessing they are still working but I also figured out how to host on my own website yesterday so I think I'm going to break up with Google Drive for now. Can't take a chance on them breaking my heart, I mean, links again. Lol!

Hoping your info will help others who don't currently have their own site.    Thanks for sharing!

-Kim

A bunch of us noticed an issue yesterday (just in time for the weekly ELH challenge).

The workaround of adding story.swf (or whatever it happens to be if you're using something other than Storyline) works.

I had a chat with Google support yesterday. I'm still waiting for a resolution. If I get an answer, I'll share it here.

Oh great Simon! Yes, please keep me posted and everyone else.  It's weird some people have issues and some don't, so I don't know what exactly the problem is.  Anyhow I will keep checking for your update.

Thanks Kristine, Kim and Simon for sharing that information here - and Simon, please feel free to keep us posted on what Google says. 

Thanks you guys....I am anxious to hear the results!

I haven't heard back from Google yet, but Linda Robertson just posted in another thread that her Google Drive files are working again.

I checked all of mine, we well as several others (from the ELH Challenge) and they're all working too.

FYI, it now works again with just the folder (i.e. no "index.html" or "story.swf").

Thanks Simon for updating here - and that's what we're hearing from a number of issues, it looks to have been a temporary issue on the Google drive end. 

Thanks Simon,

Just typed in the usual way, minus index or story, and my projects works too.  Debating on whether to switch the links on my website now.... I hope this doesn't happen again.  I will say the url doesn't appear the same way as typed, once selected.

So, 3 weeks and 4 support technicians later, all I got was "this is most likely an outage and they were able to fixed it".

Well, that's at least something... :-)

Thanks for the update Simon and just glad folks are back up and running here!