Recently, I have updated my Synology NAS to DSM 7. I was positively surprised that most of the apps I use work without problems. The new Synology Photos app is not that nice compared to the old Photo Station 6 but anyway, it will improve, I hope.
There is a bigger update on the WebStation under DSM 7. Formerly, it was quite difficult to run a website (let’s say: a WordPress instance) under the main domain name of your installation (e.g. as fpposchmann.de). The standard installation would access a WordPress instance under fpposchmann.de/wordpress; quite ugly. The Apache aliases could not be configured in the WebStation. I found no way to change that by standard configuration means and ended up configuring my own apache.conf.
Still, a WordPress installation under DSM 7 would be configured to be accessed as fpposchmann.de/wordpress but now there is the possibility to manipulate that. You may change, add or disable the aliases for some standard Synology packages. And you may create a new „Service Portal – Package Server Portal“ for some Synology packages. I’ve created such an additional portal for my main domain fpposchmann.de pointing to the WordPress installation and disabled the standard alias fpposchmann.de/wordpress (you cannot delete such an alias).
But, oh oh, now the other aliases (fpposchmann.de/phpmyadmin and fpposchmann.de/wiki) are not accessible any more. The new „Service Portal“ seems to shield the other aliases. I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug but there is a workaround for this problem. I have created a new sub-domain without a „Service Portal“ and for the sub-domain the aliases are accessible (e.g. xyz.fpposchmann.de/phpmyadmin and xyz.fpposchmann.de/wiki).
Btw, the Synology package „MailStation“ (the roundcube web mailer) is also creating an alias (fpposchmann.de/mail) which is not configurable under the WebStation.
So, now I am happy with the standard Synology packages. But still there are no ways to configure aliases for „Virtual Hosts“, i.e. non-standard web packages. Too bad.
Hi,
Just curious if you have found a way since then to be able to access a WordPress site without the ‚wordpress‘ in the URL on DSM 7.
Most guides I found were for DSM 6.x not taking the separate web-packages folder that came with DSM 7.x into consideration.
If you managed to get it to work, I’d love to hear how – been looking into this for a week now.
No, I did not find any other solution than that described in this post. In short:
sub-domain/packageFor non-standard packages I do not have a solution yet.