Occasionally you will need or want to change your SQL database password. In this guide I will teach you, step by step, how to change your SQL database password for your WordPress website hosted on a Synology NAS. Fortunately, Synology provides us with all the tools we need for this. First of all you will … Read more about Change Password On Your SQL Database with phpMyAdmin
Knock, Knock, Synology! It’s been more than one year without any update to the Apache HTTP Server 2.4 package. The current version for the Synology Apache HTTP Server package is 2.4.29 which has huge holes in security. If you take a look at the Apache 2.4 changelog page you’ll see that the latest version is … Read more about Synology Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Package is out of date
After contacting Synology support and receiving a reply, I learned that an upcoming WebStation update, which will make PHP 7.2.13 work, will be released on the 22nd of January, 2019, and be available for download via the Synology Package Center. The current version of WebStation (version 0143) cannot detect PHP 7.2.13 yet. The official answer … Read more about Synology PHP 7.2.13 and New WebStation Update
This is really a weird thing which Synology needs to solve in its future DSM updates: dependencies. For example PHP 7.2 is dependent on earlier versions, and so is Apache 2.2. If I am using PHP 7.2, why am I forced to also install versions 5.6 and 7.0? Why am I forced to install APACHE … Read more about Synology: Force you to install all older version of PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 – Apache 2.2 and 2.4
You have imported your website from a private hosting service directly to your own Synology NAS but now, every time you try to access your website, you get this error: “Error establishing a database connection”. If the password and username in your wp-config.php file match perfectly and all the file permissions are set up correctly, … Read more about Synology: Error establishing a database connection after WordPress Import
Recently I have been seeing quite a lot of self-hosted WordPress websites, hosted from home on a Synology NAS. The increase in self-hosted websites aside, what caught my attention was quite the unbelievable latency in opening pages and processing requests of said websites. My website is extremely fast, with an impressive page speed, and has … Read more about How to Speed Up WordPress on Synology NAS