Web Applications

With the Web Station feature, you can create a website with web pages on the Synology RackStation.  With built-in PHP and MySQL support, you can create dynamic, database-driven website for your business. There is also a variety of 3rd party packages such as Content Management, Customer Relationship Management & e-Commerce system in Package Center, so that you can install them with a few clicks. The default shared folder, "web" will store the web page files for your website.

To enable Web Station:

  1. Tick Enable Web Station.
  2. Click Apply.

Web Station support and limitations include:

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/~johnlee
  2. SynologyNAS/~johnlee

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%5ctonywu
  2. SynologyNAS/~testdomain%5ctonywu

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/~tonywu@testdomain
  2. SynologyNAS/~tonywu@testdomain

Note: Before you enable this feature, please make sure User Home function is enabled. Please go to Control Panel > User > User Home to enable User Home for local users; go to Control Panel > Directory Service > Domain Users > User Home to enable User Home for domain users; go to Control Panel > Directory Service > LDAP Users > User Home to enable User Home for LDAP users.

To create a personal website:

  1. Create a folder "www" in the user home directory.
  2. Upload web pages in the "www" folder.

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:

  1. Their own home
  2. /var/tmp
  3. /tmp
  4. /volumeX/@tmp

Enable MySQL

You can enable MySQL to use the MySQL database function for your website. After MySQL is enabled, you can install the phyMyAdmin package available in Package Center to manage the MySQL database.

The default root password of MySQL is blank.