The configuration files are different from the previous version 4 and they use now upstart to start and stop the service:
To stop the Web Station: /sbin/initctl stop httpd-user
To start the Web Station: /sbin/initctl start httpd-user
There is also a status command, to show the state of the server: httpd-user stop/waiting (Stopped) or httpd-user start/running, process #### (running)
For FileStation and Audio station, these application/sites normally expect the browser to connect to application ports, namely in my case the port 7000 and 7002. This has potentially two problems: I need to open them up on my home router to allow access, and sometimes I’m behind a proxy that doesn’t allow anything else to be used as a port on the url (except for port 80-HTTP or 443-HTTPS).
What is needed to achieve this? Well first a a dns server that accepts wirldcard domains. The Myds.me is one of them and is provided by Synology and directly integrated into the DSM.
Second a file like this is needed to be created:
<IfModule !proxy_module> LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so </IfModule> ProxyRequests Off #ProxyPreserveHost On NameVirtualHost *:80 #For File Station <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName filestation.mydomainname.myds.me <Location /> RedirectPermanent / https://filestation.mydomainname.myds.me/ </Location> </VirtualHost> NameVirtualHost *:443 <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName filestation.mydomainname.myds.me SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 SSLCertificateFile /usr/syno/etc/ssl/ssl.crt/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/syno/etc/ssl/ssl.key/server.key SSLEngine on SSLProxyEngine on ProxyRequests Off ProxyVia Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass / http://localhost:7000/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:7000/ </VirtualHost>
Save this file as httpd-FILESTATION-vh.conf-user at /usr/syno/etc
Then add the following line at the end of this file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf-user
Include /usr/syno/etc/httpd-FILESTATION-vh.conf-user
Repeat for other sites like Audio Station, changing the hostname and the localhost port.
You can now run the following command: /usr/syno/etc/rc.sysv/httpd-user-conf-writer.sh and check if the above include is added to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file. This file is always regenerated at start of the Web Station.
Now we can restart the web station with /sbin/initctl stop httpd-user followed by the start command.
Check now if you can access the url: http://filestation.mydomain.myds.me
Edit: This works for version 5.0-4482
For more recent versions you need also to do the following:
Edit file /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf-user and comment out the ServerName and ServerAlias like this
# ServerName * # ServerAlias *
Save the files, write again the configuration (/usr/syno/etc/rc.sysv/httpd-user-conf-writer.sh), stop ( /sbin/initctl stop httpd-user) and start again ( /sbin/initctl start httpd-user), and it should work now.
