I had some free time* this evening, so I thought I’d investigate the NAS’s capabilities.<\/p>\n
I downloaded, installed and configured an instance of the phpMyAdmin control panel (the Synology Diskstation NAS already has MySQL installed).<\/p>\n
Then I used the internal package downloader to grab a copy of WordPress, and installed that as an intranet blog.<\/p>\n
Well, I said to myself (I seem to be doing a lot of this, lately. I’m going to have to keep a watch on this. Yes you are. Who said that? I did. Who are you? Look, just get on with documenting what you did, you big geek) if building an intranet website is that easy, why don’t I use the next half an hour to set up an internet website on the NAS.<\/p>\n
Well it didn’t take half an hour, obv.<\/p>\n
But after a lot of fiddling about within a handful of different modules, and reconfiguring various router and server ports, and firewall rules, everything looked about ready to go.<\/p>\n
So I went to the registrar’s control panel of a domain I own that’s been dormant for the last six months, and pointed it at my static IP address, and the @, and A, and nameserver addresses, I had created in the NAS.<\/p>\n
Then I did the most crucial part of the whole exercise.<\/p>\n
I drank tea.<\/p>\n
Lots of tea.<\/p>\n
Then I dropped a static index.html file in to the root of the website’s domain I had created on the NAS.<\/p>\n
Opened a browser.<\/p>\n
Typed in the URI.<\/p>\n
And blow me, the bloody thing worked!<\/p>\n
The next stage is to install the .php gubbins that is the marvel of WordPress.<\/p>\n
Then I’ll have to open up the phpMyAdmin control panel \u00a0and create a database.<\/p>\n
Then I’ll open up the default wp-config.php and edit in to that the details of the database I’ve just created.<\/p>\n
And then I just run the install.php<\/p>\n
Yes?<\/p>\n
Well. Yes, I think so.<\/p>\n
But it’s 9pm now and that’s bedtime for me<\/p>\n
So I’ll do the .php and MySQL\/phpMyAdmin stuff tomorrow.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
*should have been packing but what the hell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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