Web station to access wordpress externally

Note - I only want to be able to have an instance of Wordpress accessible over the public internet for a client to see their website; this is only for dev purposes and not production.

I am using Synology's inbuilt DDNS server ( XXXXX.synology.me) . I know my ISP has porty 80 block on inbound which is fine as I have port forwarded port 8000 on my router to the local IP of my NAS

I am able to reach the default landing page for the Synology Web station using my configured DDNS domain however I cant seem to get to the wordpress site at all!. I've got WordPress installed from the built in applications as well as I have installed my own instance manually with no success.

I have got an VM running on my NAS with Django running and when I port forwarded the ports, I am able to reach the site with no issues. It seems to me that the

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