mwader/hugo-dropbox repository overview

⁠hugo-dropbox

Docker image that serves a hugo site from dropbox

⁠Setup

Environment variable DROPBOX_FOLDER sets which dropbox folder to use for hugo files.

First start a container:

docker run --rm -e DROPBOX_FOLDER="hugo test" -p 8080:8080 mwader/hugo-dropbox

After a while you will see log messages from dropboxd:

This computer isn't linked to any Dropbox account...
Please visit https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link_nonce?nonce=.... to link this device.

Visit the link in a browser logged in with the dropbox account you want to link. Once linked files will start to be synced and hugo will start running.

Now your site should be available at http://docker-host:8080

⁠docker-compose

site:
  image: mwader/hugo-dropbox
  restart: always
  environment:
    - DROPBOX_FOLDER=Homepage

Run docker-compose up -d and check logs docker-compose logs

⁠Tips

You most probably want to create a dedicated dropbox account for hugo-dropbox and share a collaborative folder with it. That way it does not sync and have access to your other files.

To preserve dropbox configuration and data i suggest letting docker-compose take care of it or create a data only container and use --volumes-from.