Google Compute Engine does not allow outbound connections on ports 25, 465 and 587. These SMTP ports are blocked by default due to abuse. For sending emails through the Google cloud compute instance Google recommends the following: Relay emails through your G suite(formerly known as Google Apps) account Relay using third party email service such… Read More How to Send Emails from WordPress on a Google Cloud Compute Instance
I’ve been doing a small bit of Google Cloud Compute(GCP) configurations to run this blog. I thought I’ll start sharing some of the steps I’ve gone through which could be useful to others out there. So I’ve setup a GCP instance and configured it with a WordPress Bitnami stack. I’ve got some videos of those… Read More How to Access phpMyAdmin on Google Cloud Compute on your Mac
If your previous Apache setup stopped working after updating to MacOS High Sierra, then this post should be useful for you. On every update of the MacOS it ships with its own version of Apache and PHP and creates a new install that overrides your configuration.
Optimizing your WordPress powered website is a continuous process. It depends on how heavily customized your WordPress site is, luckily the out of the box the theme I installed ranked average. Check your site at Think With Google or GtMetrix to get baseline of where your current website stands. This is my baseline stats. I started with these and… Read More 3 Quick Easy Steps To Speed Up your WordPress Site Now
Want to learn how to install ant on mac? What is Apache Ant used for? The main known usage of Apache Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for… Read More How to Install Apache Ant on a Mac
At last, finally found time to move my blog on LEMP(Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP-FPM) stack and it just one of the many goals I have set for starting overhauling this blog and over the coming days I’ll be optimizing it further and come up with a fresh new design. I’ve been running this blog… Read More How to run on WordPress on a LEMP stack on Amazon EC2