How to create several WorPress installations for Synology’s Web Station

MariaDB 10
- Choose a password for your database (username is always root).
phpMyAdmin
PHP 8.0
Apache HTTP 2.4
Text Editor

Open the Web Station Package and click the link to open phpMyAdmin
Log into phpMyAdmin
- username: root
- password: your choosen MariaDB 10 password
Create a new database with the name “wp_database”
Add a new user account
- Choose the name “wp_user” and a secure password
- Edit the privileges of user “wp_user”
- Under the tab “Database” chosse “data_base” and click Go
- Tick the button “Check all” and click Go
You should have now a database with the name “wp_database” and a user “wp_user” who has full control to that database.

Open Webstation
Under Script Language Settings click on “Create”
In the Settings menu of the pop up window
- set a Profile name and a Description
- set PHP version: PHP 8.0 and
- enable PHP cache
In the Extensions tab select the following extensions:
- bcmath
- curl
- exif
- ftp (optional)
- gd
- iconv
- imagick
- intl
- mysqli
- openssl
- zip
- zlip
In the Core tab set these values:
- max_execution time: 600
- max_input_vars: 3000
- post_max_size: 1024M
- upload_max_filesize: 1024M
- memory_limit: 256M
Click “Create” for finishing the profile.

Download WordPress and save the “wordpress-6.0.zip”
Create a folder “new_wordpress_installation” in the web folder of Web Station
Unzip wordpress-6.0.zip into this folder
After putting every file and folder from the unzipped “wordpress-6.0.zip” e.g “wordpress” in your “new_wordpress_installation” folder , you can delete the empty “wordpress” and the downloaded “wordpress-6.0.zip” folder

If you get the error “Unable to connect to filesystem. Please confirm your credentials.”, you have to add “define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ );” to your wp-config.php file.

If you get the error “Installation failed: Could not create directory.”, you have to set write permission for http user.

Open File Station:
- Right click on the “new_wordpress_installation” folder and click on properties.
- Go to the permission tab and edit the user “http“.
- Tick the box “Write” to give the http user all wirte permissions.
- After clicking done tick the box “Apply to this folder, sub-folders and files” and then click save.

If you get the error “Import failed!”, it is most likely because either nginx and/or apache are timing out. When you scroll up, you can also see “Installation failed: Gateway Timeout Try this solution!“. It’s a timeout error.

For solving the timeout error you have to log into your synology via ssh:
- Under control panel enable ssh.
- With PowerShell (Windows Terminal etc.) log into your synology with the command “ssh username@ip-of-your-synology“.
- Accept the “ECDSA key fingerprint” and log in with you synology nas password.
Solve nginx timeout error (you can do this also in a file browser, see link):
- Use the following command “cd /volume1/@appstore/WebStation/misc” to change directories.
- Use the following command “sudo cp VirtualHost-nginx.mustache VirtualHost-nginx.mustache.save” to make a copy of the nginx.mustache file.
- Use vi to change the nginx.mustache file with following command “sudo vi VirtualHost-nginx.mustache“. Add the two following higlighted lines “proxy_read_timeout 600s;” – see picture below (vi editor is a little bit ugly to use, u have to press i for insert and ESC, to exit insert mode. If you changed the following lines, you can exit vi with “:wq“ + Enter).

Solve apache timeout error (you cannot do this in filebrowser):
- Use the following command “cd /usr/local/etc/apache24/conf” to change directories.
- Use the following command “sudo cp httpd24.conf httpd24.conf.save” to make a copy of the httpd24.conf file.
- Use vi to change the httpd24.conf file with following command “sudo vi httpd24.conf“. Add the two following higlighted line “TimeOut 600” – see picture below- to the end of httpd24.conf.