So wanted to do this for some time now and got the chance to do this now as I wanted to share something new everyday. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open Certificate Authority. Today I learned it was not straight forward to install. I first tried to add the ppa certbot and when… Read More How To Install Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate on Google Cloud Compute with a Bitnami Stack
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