The Drupal & Servers section covers practical insights, tutorials, and notes from over 15 years of experience working with Drupal and web infrastructure.
Alongside Drupal development, this includes hands-on work with server environments such as Ubuntu, Nginx, and tools like XTRF, as well as broader topics around deployment, configuration, and performance optimization. The focus is on real-world solutions, debugging, and maintaining production systems rather than theory.
More recently, there has been a shift toward “vibe coding” — rapidly building and iterating on tools with the help of AI. This approach has led to the development of several practical applications for financial markets, including options scanners and other data-driven utilities.
The other morning I faced an issue Could not complete the Save As command because there is not enough memory (RAM)" while trying to save a .pdf files using Adobe Photoshop. I spent a couple of…
The other day I faced this problem - server was not automatically renewing Let's Encrypt certificate: produced an unexpected error: Problem binding to port 443: Could not bind to…
From Drupal Reports status page I noticed gzip is failing for js files error The web servers configuration will need to be adjusted. In most cases make sure that the webroots .htaccess file…
Now, there is one more reason I'm starting to enjoy Drupal 8, embedding YouTube videos in articles now are super easy, thanks to the simple and neat Drupal module - Video Embed Field In…
In today's Drupal tutorial series I will talk about Trusted host settings, what they are and how to configure them. In short, Trusted host settings protects against HTTP HOST Header attacks (prevent…
As you might already know search engines (Google) sees www.domain.com and domain.com as two separate domain names. If you are not using 301 redirects (www to non-www or vice verse)you…
Setting up Google Analytics for a Drupal 8 powered website is as simple as it is with Drupal 7 website, luckily for us, there is a small and neat module doing the hard work for us. Google Analytics…
In the third part of Drupal 8, website building from a scratch series I will focus on a few essential must have, modules to boost Drupal website's SEO and usability. Before continuing to learn how…
To strengthen Drupal websites security I decided to disable one-click automatic module updates from Drupal dashboard, unfortunately, it makes it harder not even for bad guys to compromise…
There are a couple of great helper modules for Drupal to learn more about failing security holes - Security Review and Hacked. Security Review The Security Review module automates…
In the second part of the series Building Drupal 8 Website from the scratch I will cover details on working with content types and node displays. Make sure to check out part 1, before proceeding.…
There are many translation project management systems out there, some are better, some are not so good, some are for free or open source while others might be pricey. …
It has been a while since Drupal 8 has been around. It took me some time before I actually started to develop Drupal 8 websites, sticking with more convenient Drupal 7 (Which I believe still is…
I felt very enthusiastic once Amazon announced OneLink, it seemed like a missing puzzle to serve international customers and boost earnings as an Amazon associate. Now many months later I have…
Although it doesn't happen often, in rare situations you might get in trouble with GMAP marker sets. The most common case is change with folder permissions or migrating site to another host. How to…
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