Comments on: WordPress on Synology accessible with both a Netbios name and Domain name

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:35:33 +0000

I found other solutions than the host file:
– either configure the DHCP server the pass the open DNS of Google to the DHCP client instead of the default Internet Provider’s DNS
– or define a Host file on the router if this one is running dd-wrt
– or use the DNS Server of the Synology and configured appropriately the DHCP server to pass that DNS

See more details here.

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:07:15 +0000

In reply to JT.

At the beginning, I was basically using a free subdomain of Synology: Olympe.DiskStation.me
I was able to access wordpress from internet using that address.

Next, I have configured a CName Record in my own domain. So, concretely http://www.beatificabytes.be is an alias of Olympe.DiskStation.me (I.e.: I don’t have a fix IP)
http://www.beatificabytes.be is now the url configured in the settings of wordpress.

But for sure, I may not use any of those urls from my intranet. They all get me on the webpage of my VDSL router which has my public IP (similar to what you experience).

Initially, I was therefore using the NetBios name of my Synology, as explained in this post. But since, I have defined an entry in the “host” files of all the machines in my intranet:
http://www.beatificabytes.be

So now, I can access the url http://www.beatificabytes.bewordpress from both the internet and in my intranet…
Using this url instead of the netbios name of my synology make a difference when posting from the intranet! The url used to access wordpress is logged with the posts. And I noticed weird behaviors with various plugins used on posts created from http:// instead of http://www.beatificabytes.be

By: JT

JT — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:41:54 +0000

In reply to Valery Letroye.

Hi,

I can access my web station from the internet via port 5000 or 5001 without any problems. Do you have to purchase/register a domain name first to get wordpress accessible from the internet?

When I type in [hostname].myDS.me:8888/wordpress, it just gets redirected to my local IP address (192.168.1.110/wordpress). So this doesn’t work outside of my network.

Did you purchase your domain and register it to get it working? If so, do you also have to host it first or can you just purchase/register a domain and use that for wordpress? Thanks in advance

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:54:29 +0000

I presume that you can at least access your web station on http://my_synology_hostname from internet ? If you can’t, then the problem is not with the configuration of wordpress but with the other settings:
– web station enabled on synology ?
– DDNS enabled and status ok on Synology ?
– Firewall enable on Synology ?

If you can access the web station, on port 80, can you access also the administration web interface (on port 5000?) ? If you can, it’s not an issue with port forwarding… If you cannot, are you sure that ports < 8000 are authorized by your internet provider ? Mine did disable them by default and I had to explicitly enable them in my account (via his own web management interface).

By: JT

JT — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:16:44 +0000

Hi,

I am having some trouble setting up WordPress on my DS212J.

I have phpMyAdmin and WordPress installed. I am trying to figure out how to access it via the internet. I do not have a domain and was wondering if you could help me.

I have enabled port forwarding for port 80 to 8080. I tried to access it via the browser http://[my_synology_hostname]/wordpress but it doesn’t work.

Please advise. Thanks!