Server Resource Pack not working with link to Dropbox

I uploaded my custom resource pack to my dropbox. But if I use a link to said resource pack in server.properties, it never works for some reason. It does work fine when I use a direct link (from a popular resource pack, not hosted on dropbox).

I want to know how I get the dropbox one to work. How can I get it to work? and here is my link, https://www.dropbox.com/s/4towhzbjyf6238p/server-resorucepack.zip?dl=1

minecraft-java-edition minecraft-java-edition-server

Best Answer

Dropbox can support it, but you need a little more than just dl=1.

The thing is that usual Dropbox links ("get dropbox link" thing) generate links to Dropbox page, not the file.

You can alter the link to aim it to file server directly, instead.

This is done by this change, here is original link:

https://www.dropbox.com/somestring...?dl=0

And here is the link you need. Be aware it leads to totally another server, which has no HTML content, so you access the files directly:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/somestring...?dl=1

As you can see, the alternating of the start of URL does the thing. For dl=0 or dl=1 , the thing is, that for some files it can do difference if it starts to download or it shows in browser. So pictures etc. with dl=0 will just show in browser, but with dl=1 they are forced to download.

You need the server to directly download the file and not comunicate it with HTML nor show the file, so you need to change the dl=1, too. (However it could probably work with ?dl=0 totally deleted or with keeping =0, too, because ZIP file is not the type to be shown in browser, so it downloads anyway).

NOTE: Do not change the string identifying the file and user in between.