How To Host A Website On Google Drive

Google’s one more exciting feature is web hosting! Now we can build a website with HTML,CSS and JAVA Script files inside Google Drive account and all these is free of cost.

Today we are going to know that how we can host a website for free on Google Drive. You have to just follow the simple steps as following to know the trick.

Steps to host a website on Google Drive:

Step 1: First of all it is required to log in to one’s own Google drive account or the account through which one wants to manage the website. If you don’t have Google account then sign up .

Step 2: After doing this we have to click on the create option and then follow this by clicking option.

Step 3: In the next step we have to name the “New Folder”, choose any name as your wish. In our post we name the folder “New Website”.

Step 4: Now after naming the folder the next task is to select the checkbox appearing right next to the new folder.

Step 5: Then next we have to click on the icon that says “Sharing Settings”.

Step 6: Then we have to change the access rights of the folder by clicking on the “Change” option.

Step 7: In the sharing settings we have to choose the option “Public on the web” to make that folder public.

Step 8: After this we must have to click on the folder’s title that was “My Website” kept in earlier step.

Step 9: By doing this one creates a public but never the less empty folder.

 

Step 10: Now we can upload any file to website by clicking on the upload “files” icon.

Step 11: Following the procedure next up, we must select a file with index.html from one’s hard drive, Then “Upload and share” option must be clicked.

Step 12: Our   new folder thus gets a home page now.

Step 13: Then we must have to copy the characters after “#folders”.

Step 14: Then the copied strings are supposed to paste on the address bar.

By following all these 14 simple steps, you can easily host a website on Google Drive without any problem.