Jon Simpson
Cleaner URLs for Dropbox Public Files
The dl.dropboxusercontent.com URLs generated by the Dropbox public folder are quite long and not particularly friendly. Inspired by Matt Henderson’s subdomain redirect approach, some .htaccess magic can allow a path on another site to redirect all requests within it to the Dropbox public folder - just insert your Dropbox user ID in place of 123123 (you can find it after the /u/ in the public links Dropbox generates for you)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^db/(.*) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/123123/$1 [R=301,L]
The above rewrite rule means that requests for any file under http://example.com/db/ will redirect, complete with filename to https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/123123/ - making it easy to provide a clean link to anything in your public folder.