How to self-host WriteFreely on a Synology
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While most guides focuses on installing WriteFreely on Ubuntu or Docker (docker-compose), I could not find one that simply uses Synology with Docker.
And here’s how you do it:
- Install Docker for your Synology.
- Search and download algernon/writefreely.
- Create a container with that image:
- Select
bridge
network - Enable auto restart
- Set your desired port, leaving the container port as
8080
- Create a folder on your NAS and attach the folder here pointing to
/data
- Declare these two variables:
WRITEFREELY_ADMIN_USERNAME
andWRITEFREELY_ADMIN_PASSWORD
- Start container
- Select
- Buy me a drink on ko-fi :)
Now you can access WriteFreely from your browser pointing to your NAS IP Address and the port that you’ve indicated.