Topic: Running FrontAccounting 2.4.18 from Synology DiskStation
I'm not a database expert, just an IT guy.
Took me half a day to figure things out while using ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini simultaneously!
So I decided to share the steps how I made it work.
Packages installed:
MariaDB 10
PHP 8.2
Web Station from Synology NAS
phpMyAdmin (which also installed PHP 8.0 for some reason)
Web Station app
Web Service
Default Service, Edit, set HTTP to Nginx, PHP 8.2, Save
Script Language Settings: Edit User-defined PHP 8.2
extentions enabled: curl, mysqli, openssl, zip, zlib (without zlib it wouldn't let me add languages or access Repository during setup)
phpMyAdmin app
created a new database called frontaccounting
then created a new user
File Station app
copy FA files to web/frontaccounting
set http read/write permission for frontaccounting folder, including sub-folders
Issues encountered:
In the beginning I was setting things up with Apache HTTP Server 2.4 service
when running the browser with the address IP/frontaccounting the page wouldn't load giving some page errors.
Once I switched the back-end server to Nginx, things just started working.