We do not provide an official Kiwix App for Synology NAS, but thanks to our friend Anton here’s a simple how-to to get it working without the need for Docker:
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1. On your Synology, go to Package Center > Settings > Package Sources > Add and add the following:
Name: SynoCommunity
Location: packages.synocommunity.com/
2. You will now find Kiwix under the Community tab. Click Install.
3. Download a .zim file from library.kiwix.org/
4. Put the .zim file in the /kiwix-share folder that got created during the installation of Kiwix.
5. Open up port 22 on your Synology NAS by enabling the SSH service in Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP, then SSH into it with the following command:
(ssh username@ipaddressofyoursynology)
and then run this command:
kiwix-manage /volume1/kiwix-share/library.xml add /volume1/kiwix-share/wikipedia_en_100_2024-06.zim (replace with the name of your file)
It is good to close port 22 again when you’re done.
Restart Kiwix and browse to the address of your Synology NAS and port 8092. For example: http://192.168.1.100:8092
From there on it is all yours to install and run any content from the Kiwix library that you like!
