Configure Symfony 3 on Synology DSM 6.x

Installing Symfony 3 on Synology has some tricky bits to make it run. This post essentially addresses the fatal errors when trying to write cache or logs, which is a common issue that has some documented solutions at Symfony’s site – and issue being that ACL permissions cannot be changed as those instructions suggest.

Synology’s DSM has a builtin tool for this: synoacltool (use synoacltool -h for help).

Terminal / SSH:

To make this run on your development server follow these steps for each affected directory (e.g. logs):

1. Remove the directory:

   sudo rm -r logs/

2. Recreate it:

   sudo mkdir logs

3. Change owner to http:

   sudo synoacltool -set-owner logs/ user http

4. Enforce inheritance:

   sudo synoacltool -enforce-inherit logs/

In my case I had to do this for the logs, cache and sessions folders on my app’s folders.

GUI  (should work):

• Using DSM’s File Manager to assign the user http to these files!

This should do it!