Synology: Domain Access from /wordpress Instead of Main Domain

Synology Domain Access from wordpress Instead of Main Domain

Did you know WordPress installation automatically goes to a web/wordpress directory? This will make your URL link equal to http://www.example.com/wordpress. Would you like your domain to be accessible from http://www.example.com instead http://www.example.com/wordpress ?

Below, you will find a step by step guide on how to access

http://www.example.com/wordpress as http://www.example.com:

  • Install the Synology WordPress Package as you usually would do, using Package Center.
  • Login to your domain name at http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/
  • Verify the WordPress address (URL) = http://www.example.com/wordpress
  • Edit Site address (URL) to be http://www.example.com then save settings (follow the instructions in the image below).

Synology change wordpress url addresss

  • Use File Station to navigate to the wordpress folder residing under the web root folder.
  • Copy (not move) the index.php and .htaccess files from the wordpress folder into the web root folder.
  • Rename the original web root index.html file to index.html.old
  • Edit the index.php within the web root folder to change ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ to ‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’
  • Save the change.

Additional information:

  1. Edit any permalinks (if you use them) from within http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/op … malink.php
  2. Open your website from http://www.example.com
  3. If the instructions above don’t work for you, go to WebStation / General Settings / Change HTTP back-end server to Apache 2.4 or viceversa to Nginx do some A/B tests.

If you want to get rid of problems like this one that can occur with the Synology WordPress Package, install the original WordPress version from wordpress.org or contact me for a step by step solution.

This post was updated on Tuesday / February 4th, 2020 at 11:55 PM