Drupal Website Development
The Drupal Wesbite Development 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.
How to Install Drupal 11 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.3, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 24.04 - Linode Guide
In this article, you will learn how to set up a webserver for serving Drupal 11 websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.3, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 24.04For the following tutorial, I used…
How to Install Composer on Ubuntu (24.04) for Easy Drupal Module & Theme Updates
As a Drupal developer, keeping your modules up to date is crucial for security and performance. To streamline this process, I use Composer—a powerful dependency manager for PHP. It allows me to…
How to Install Drupal 10 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 23.04 - Linode Guide
In this article, you will learn how to set up a webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 23.04 For the following tutorial, I used…
How To Fix Drupal AMP Error with Google Analytics
AMP for Drupal is a really powerful module, that can give your Drupal-powered website an impressive website traffic boost. But it will only work if there are no AMP-related issues - like Custom…
How to Install Drupal 9 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 22.04 - Linode Guide
In this article, you will learn how to set up a webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 22.04 For the following tutorial, I used…
How to Fix "Unable to install bootstrap, bootstrap.settings already exists in active configuration"
As this was already the second time i faced the "Unable to install bootstrap, bootstrap.settings already exists in active configuration." problem i decided to share a quick and simple…
How To Upgrade Drupal 7 to 9 (With Multilingual Support)
In this article, I will keep notes on how I upgraded the multilingual Drupal 7 site to a multilingual Drupal 9 site. Turns out I had originally built this website on Drupal 7 more than 10 years ago…
Adding Custom CSS stylesheet to Drupal Olivero theme
Just recently I migrated my blog from Drupal 7 to the Drupal 9 platform, and this time I decided to stick with what I get, instead of building it all from scratch. I really like the default…
How To Update to PHP 7.4 Ubuntu 16.04 Drupal 7 Nginx
I was facing problems with some Drupal modules not being supported, before upgrading to PHP 7.4 version. As I had running Ubuntu 16.04 server with Nginx and PHP 7.0 FPM on in I felt a…
How To Display Drupal 8 Block on all Taxonomy pages (taxonomy/term/)
Today working on my favorite website - optionsbrew.com, for a moment I faced a small issue - how to display block (s) on the default taxonomy/term page. I remember I was doing such tricks back in…
How To Add CAPTCHA Protection to Drupal 8 Webform
Recently I launched a new Drupal 8 website and was surprised by a spam amount we got via website's contact form (built with Webform module). As the website was new, I was manually…
How To Create a Custom Drupal 8 Theme based on Bootstrap
When building a new Drupal website I prefer working with a Bootstrap theme and apply a subtheme Just like in the case with Drupal 7, theming a subtheme based on Bootstrap is super simple - in…
How to Install Drupal with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 - Linode Guide
In this article, you will learn how to setup webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 For the following tutorial,…
File Permissions for gmap_markers.js
Time after time I'm facing this issue with gmap markers. As mostly this happens when I'm doing something on the server side with file permissions, I decided to keep the notes here is the problem…
Simple CSS trick to Make Table Responsive
Working on the OptionsBrew.com project (website is powered by Drupal 8) I faced the following responsive table issue while browsing content with a table on smaller screens (phone)Broken…
Drupal 7 Fix: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1231 Variable 'sql_mode' can't be set to the value of 'NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER'.
I was migrating Drupal 7 website to a newer infrastructure (PHP 7.4) and during the migration process when tried to connect to the MySQL database I faced following error - SQLSTATE[42000…
How To Block IP Address in Drupal 8
Unlike in Drupal 7 version where IP banning is enabled by default, with Drupal 8 version, there is one more step added - IP banning must be enabled from the extend section. Here is how. (source)…
How To HTTPS Secure Drupal 8 Running Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04
Let's Encrypt have done some very good job, providing SSL certificates that everyone can use absolutely for free. Encrypted HTTPS websites should be default in 2020. I have been…
How to Install Drupal 8 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.2, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04 - Linode Guide
In this article, you will learn how to setup Drupal 8 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.2, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04 For the following tutorial, I used very much the information from my previous…
How To Enable Google Adsense ads.txt file for Drupal on Nginx
Around early September 2019, in my Google AdSense dashboard, I noticed a warning informing me to create a separate ads.txt file. I followed the on-screen instruction and did what was asked.…
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