Synology Redirect Nginx HTTP to https + Allow Letsencrypt

You can follow this article pretty much all the way. https://techjogging.com/redirect-www-to-https-in-synology-nas-nginx.html However, it will fail if you use Letsencrypt to generate an SSL Certificate. So you simply need to add the following above the redirect line. Here’s how it should look. Of course after you make this change you will need to restart Nginx You … Read more

SynoCommunity “Invalid location” error

When trying to install the SynoCommunity to your Synology’s package manager, you might get the “Invalid location” error, as shown in the screenshot below. Excuse the location, this was from Google Images as I didn’t take a screenshot when the issue was occurring. You can find the cause of this issue on the SynoCommunity Github, … Read more

Sending email from Synology via CLI/SSH on DSM 6

Doing a quick Google search for sending emails from Synology via CLI/SSH talks about the sendmail command. However, this doesn’t work on DSM6 unless you install a package that provides the command. You can install one of the following packages to get the sendmail command Synology Mail Server Synology MailPlus Server Both allow you to … Read more

Clearing DNS Service Cache on Synology NAS

If you’re using the Synology DNS server for your local clients or services on the Synology NAS, then you might need to clear it’s cache. It’s really simple, and after googling I couldn’t find a straight answer. So I did some digging and found this was the appropriate way to clear the DNS Service Cache … Read more