Web Applications

With the built-in Web Station feature and PHP support, you can easily host a website on your DiskStation and create dynamic websites for your business or hobby. In addition, Package Center provides a variety of 3rd party packages such as Content Management, Customer Relationship Management & e-Commerce system. A default shared folder called web will be created to store the files for your website.

To enable Web Station:

  1. Go to Control Panel > Web Services.
  2. Tick Enable Web Station.
  3. Click Apply.

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Enable Virtual Host to Host Websites

You can host multiple websites on a single server with virtual host feature. To get started, your need to register a couple of domain names and configure virtual hosting by following the steps below.

To enable Virtual Host:

  1. Click Virtual Host.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Enter a name for the sub-folder of the web shared folder, which will store the website files.
  4. Enter a hostname for the website.
  5. Enter a port for the website.
  6. Click OK.

Enable Personal Website

The personal website feature is a convenient way to allow local users, domain users and LDAP users to create their own personal websites.

For local users

Each local user will have a unique website address server-IP/~username or server-name/~username. For example:

  1. 192.168.1.1/~ken
  2. SynologyNAS/~ken

For domain users

Each domain user will have a unique website address server-IP/~domainname%5cusername or server-name/~domainname%5cusername. For example:

  1. 192.168.1.1/~testdomain%5cken
  2. SynologyNAS/~testdomain%5cken

For LDAP users

Each LDAP user will have a unique website address server-IP/~username@domainname or server-name/~username@domainname. For example:

  1. 192.168.1.1/~ken@testdomain
  2. SynologyNAS/~ken@testdomain

Note:

Before enabling this feature, please make sure user homes are enabled. For local users, go to Control Panel > User > Advanced; for domain users, go to Control Panel > Directory Service > Domain Users > User Home; for LDAP users, go to Control Panel > Directory Service > LDAP Users > User Home.

Note:

Before enabling this feature, please make sure user homes are enabled. For local users, go to Control Panel > User > Advanced.

To create a personal website:

  1. If you have checked Enable personal website, a folder www will be automatically created in the user's home directory.
  2. The user can now upload the website-related files (e.g., webpages and sound files) into the www folder.
  3. Make sure the user has proper access permissions to the uploaded files.

To customize the error page:

  1. Save the error page as missing.html, missing.htm, or missing.php.
  2. Upload the file to the www folder.

When users link to a page that does not exist in the local user’s website, the customized error page will be displayed.

Support and limitations:

Local users are only allowed to access data under the following:

HTTP Service

Besides the default port numbers 80 (for HTTP) or 443 (for HTTPS), additional port numbers can be added for accessing Photo Station and Web Station. You can add an additional port number from 1 to 65535 for HTTP or HTTPS.

To add an additional port number for HTTP or HTTPS access:

  1. Tick Add additional HTTP port or Add additional HTTPS port (the Enable HTTPS connection for web services option must be enabled before adding a port for HTTPS).
  2. Enter the desired port number in the field.

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