Month: August 2021

After installing pihole, don’t forget to add a cronjob to update it regularly. I did so with a crontab entry: pi@raspberry$ sudo bash root@raspberry$ crontab -e Add a line: 30 1 * * * pihole -up This will update your pihole installation every day at 1:30

There are some tutorials out there to install the Unifi controller software on your synology NAS. I ran into some pitfalls, so here’s some notes that may help you out: Pull jacobalberty/unifi:latest (not sure how trustworthy it is, but it looks legit). Create a folder on your nas to store configs/data. I chose /docker/unifi When… Continue reading Unifi controller on Synology NAS

Some random tip I ran into: wordpress pokes itself (curl?) for updates and management tasks, so it requires to be able to find itself through your public url. My NAS hosts wordpress inside a docker container through a reverse proxy, and inside the docker container it must resolve the public hostname (blog.evert.rocks) to my internal… Continue reading Dns issue with wordpress on a synology