Install on a Synology NAS

HyperDrop Server runs as a package on DSM 7 and DSM 6.2.

Contents

Install from Package Center

DSM 7 (tested 7.2.2 and 7.3.2). DSM 6.2 (tested 6.2.3).

Package Center → Settings → General → Trust Level: Any publisher. DSM 6 refuses the package otherwise.
Package Center → Settings → Package Sources → Add, with this address:
```
https://gethyperdrop.com/synology/
```
Then Community → HyperDrop → Install. Or download the package for your DSM version and processor and use Manual Install.
DSM warns that the package is from a third-party developer. Click Agree; the install wizard opens.
Choose an Admin password and fill in one address.

Package Center refuses the package? See Troubleshooting.

The install wizard

Admin username and Admin password: the account you sign in with from HyperDrop Desktop.
Free address or Or your own domain, one of them. alice becomes alice.hyperdrop.link; your own domain needs the two DNS records first.
HTTP port and HTTPS port: keep 5080 and 5443 unless another package uses them.
Proxy address (optional): empty unless a proxy forwards ports 443 and 80 to HyperDrop; then the proxy's address, 127.0.0.1 when it runs on the NAS (when ports 443 and 80 are taken).

On your router

Forward port 443 to the NAS's HTTPS port (5443 by default). Always.
Forward port 80 to the HTTP port (5080 by default): required for a free address, optional for your own domain.

The certificate is issued once the address and the 443 forward are in place; the first start can take a few minutes. Ports already used by DSM or another device: When ports 443 and 80 are taken. More: Router forwards.

Share folders already on the NAS

Give HyperDrop read access to a shared folder: Control Panel → Shared Folder → select the folder → Edit → Permissions → System internal user → HyperDrop → Read.

Updates

Package Center offers each new version under Installed → HyperDrop → Update, or Manual Install the newer package over the old one; shares, links and settings are kept. See Updates.

Until Package Center lists a new version, the app and the command line keep working with a server one minor version older or newer (Version mismatch).