I don’t want to bother you all with the history of failed tests and re-tries I’ve made to complete this process, but I want to help you with some hints I’ve collected around the world during my fight in achieving this goal. And I can assure you: IT. COULD. WORK. 😉 First let’s make some assumption: what do we want? We want to create a web site on our QNAP NAS and publish it within the domain (plain domain, no hosting) we have just bought. And we want people to write in the browser mydomain.com and not something complicated, with ports or long addresses. And we want it secure, so that any browser doesn’t give us back security warnings. Easy to explain, isn’t it? tl;dr 1. don’t use “redirect domain” unless you want to expose your real IP, buy a plain “domain with DNS management” site2. use the configuration panel on your domain register seller to create a correct “A” record in the DNS management section to link your QNAP to your domain name3. setup QNAP so that web service is on, listening to port 80 for http and 443 for https, and switch OFF any virtual hosts3bis. don’t worry, you can change the ports later, if you don’t want to use the default ones, and you can use Virtual Hosts too, after the SLL creation and import4. use the free SSL certificate creation procedure going to the web site: www.sslforfree.com and use the manual verification to create the certificates (it will be used
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Welcome! This is the first post (for testing purpose). I’ll edit it (or delete it), and then start writing! P.S. I’m thinking of leaving this first-automated post since it has been there from the beginning, welcoming me every test and amend I did… I’m getting used of it, and growing fond of it 🙂