This first post to proudly announce that I finally decided to install the WordPress Package on my Synology, a DS209+ with DSM 4.1, and start to blog.
Nothing could have been easier than installing this package… Click to read more
- Log on your Synology as an administrator
- Open the “Package Center” via the “Start Menu”
- Go to the “Available” tab
- Click “Install” on the package “WordPress”.
The setup wizard will prompt you to get the root’s password in order to create a mysql database. By default, the Synology has no password configured to access mysql with the ‘root’ account. So I decided to configure one, using “phpMyAdmin”:
- Open “phpMyAdmin” via the “Start Menu”
If “phpMyAdmin” is not available in this menu:
- Go back to the “Package Center”
- Go to the “Available” tab
- Click Install on the package “phpMyAdmin”
Once “phpMyAdmin” open:
- select the tab “Users”
- for each “root” entry (one per host), click on “Edit Privileges”
- scroll down in the “Privileges” window and change the password
Use the “root” account and its new password to complete the setup of WordPress. The only other information required to configure WordPress on your Synology is a title and a tagline for your blog 🙂
You can now access your blog on http://YourSynology/wordpress.
In a next post, I will explain how to easily access your blog from both intranet and internet, i.e.: using either your Synology netbios name (hostname) or DNS name (domain name).
