Any Dropbox experts?. Game is fine with direct link. Dropbox gives 404 on facebook

Unity Engine
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I have recently started the final steps of a game and I am working on making it a Facebook app. The game itself is hosted on dropbox and seems to works just fine with this link:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39001048/WebPlayer.html
(The game still needs some work don’t be too harsh if you actually play it ^_^)

However, I have created an app page for the game and when Facebook attempt to get it from dropbox I get an error 404:

http://apps.facebook.com/dinowarfare/

However dropbox seems fine to give the info to the actual applications page:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=202869129772705&sk=app_202869129772705

Does anyone have any clue why dropbox isn’t working on the actual app page? Any clue what is wrong? I have posted in the dropbox forums as well, but the community here has always been really awesome and I figure one of you might know what to do or what is wrong.

I also tried to use 000webhost but Facebook wont except my canvas URL claiming it is a redirecting link, but its the only one I know how to get from them.

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Dropbox is no hosting solution and you should definitely not try to run such heavy stuff there and facebook.

Facebook Apps are expected to reside in an environment that can communicate with FB (I’m not even sure you can go live with an application not embedded in an eviroment that communicates and embedds itself into FB in a meaningfull form).

and any freehoster will normally be redirecting, you need to get an own domain and bind that to your webhost (or get webhost + domain in the same package, normally easier if you have no experience with it and no interest to manage it yourself / your webhost does not allow you to manage it)

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Thanks for the info. I don’t mind paying for the services. I was just trying to see if I could get a free option first.

Although I’m a bit lost on the statement"I’m not even sure you can go live with an application not embedded in an eviroment that communicates and embedds itself into FB in a meaningfull form", I’m guessing you’re just explaining that I will need to pay for the services to get adequate hosting.

Do you have any suggestions or recommendations on sites to go for these? After a bit of searching I found 1and1. I believe they offer hosting and domain. Is that the kind of service I would need?

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dropbox can be used to only link files directly, it doesnt accept any server side scripting, just client side like javascript and basic html, i could host a entire website on dropbox for some time if you directly link to each file, and make a redirect on my domain, but its basically cheating hehehe, maybe facebook checks something like that, or it looks for a folder, you cant link folders and get the list of the files, or link to a folder and expect index.html to appear… on dropbox only direct link works

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Generally any host that supports PHP and that allows you to get / use an own domain is enough. 1and1 is surely one of the large players in that field, but there are thousands to tens of thousands of hosters around the globe.

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Thanks for the additional feedback. I have started with 1and1 and hopefully it will all work out. Now I just need to wait up to 48 hours for the site to be ready to tinker with >.>