SSL certificate for Unifi controller in Synology docker container

I guess the topic perfectly describes what this post is about. First and foremost, this whole blog idea is just a way for me to easily find this info again, in case I need it. Secondly, hopefully this info helps you out too, in case you want to have a valid SSL certificate for your Unifi Controller. Which is running in a Docker container. On your Synology NAS. The actual and useful info starts here. Ok, first we need to establish a few facts/prerequisites. I’m…

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Follow-up post: automatically renew Let’s Encrypt certificate on your Synology

If you haven’t installed the acme.sh tools on your Synology yet, check out this post first.If you have, then the next part might be of interest to you! On DSM 6.x it’s not possible to use cron tasks, so you’ll have to use the DSM’s Task Scheduler, which does essentially the same. Open your Control Panel and go to the Task Scheduler item under System. Create a new User-defined task: Configuring General task settings: Enter an identifiable Task name, leave the User as root: Configuring…

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Let’s Encrypt and Synology DSM 6.1+

If you’re like me and have your Synology NAS safely on your local network, without it being accessible from the big bad internet, you’ll likely find this post quite interesting. I have encountered a few blogs with different approaches to solve the Let’s Encrypt issue on the latest current DSM release, version 6.1. None of the solutions I found worked for me, because either the commands were outdated or they were referring to a cronjob, that is no longer available. In this blog, I am…

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