Jekbox

Jekbox uses Dropbox and Jekyll to automatically create and serve sites based on folders in your Dropbox. Any folder with the _jekbox.yml will be treated as a Jekox site. Jekbox will server as many sites as there are folders with a _jekbox.yml file.

One benefit of hosting sites from your Dropbox folder is that you can share the folders with other people. So, if you're making a website for a friend or a client, they can edit they're site simply by changing files in their personal Dropbox folder.

Installation

docker pull tombh/jekbox

##Usage

  docker run \
    --restart always \
    --publish 80:80
    --volume $HOME/.jekbox/Dropbox:/root/Dropbox \
    --volume $HOME/.jekbox/.dropbox:/root/.dropbox \
    --name jekbox \
    tombh/jekbox`

On first installation you will be asked to connect your Dropbox account. Watch the logs for the link to connect your account to Jekbox.

You will also need to make sure that the DNS for your site, eg www.nicesite.com points to the server on which Jekbox is installed. You will do this from the admin interface of your domain registrar.

##TODO

• Jexbox does not currently support wildcard domains, eg; *.nicesite.com. Let's use the _jekbox.yml file to specify which site answers to which domains.
• Provide means to redirect 'www' to apex and vice-versa.