Drupal8, Setting up AMP

Holy crap, somethings in life are not supposed to be easy and setting up AMP on my VPS server was one such experience.

Removing Drupal 8 meta Generator

One of the first thing I always like to do when implementing a CMS is to get rid of that annoying Meta tag that shows off what CMS I am running.

Point in case;
<meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)" />

Drupal 8; Exclude the current node from a View

Okay, this is rather simple once I found out how.

PS most documentation out there is for Drupal 7 and mentions NID, now as a newbie I could not for the life of me find NID in Drupal 8.

Sending Email From Wordpress on Google Cloud Compute

Sending Email From Wordpress on Google Cloud Compute is a tad difficult when Google does not support and of the outbound email ports.

But there is a workaround, fortunately :)

Drupal 8 on Google Cloud Compute

This took me two whole days to figure out, adding Drupal 7 on Google Cloud Compute is as easy as clicking on "Click to Deploy" and selecting Drupal 7 as a new instance.

Adding Drupal 8 on the other hand was a whole new challenged in itself as I had to deal with SSH (myself and SSH have never been good friends).

LAMP, Drush 7 (installed via "composer"), Drupal 8 (Setting up DB, settings .php and files permissions).

So here is the walk-through/ tutorial that I created.