Other than running this blog, I also test PHP codes on this server. If you are running Drupal on an Apache web server, then Drupal's .htaccess file is configured to disallow access to any folders that does not belong to Drupal. This means that if I need to create a folder of my own to execute PHP codes, Drupal's .htaccess configuration will stop me and show this nice 404 page. 

Thanks to Google Cloud Platform's free tier and $300 credit, I have been spending more time building on GCP. As I start to call GCP home, it's time to dress it up. My objectives are as follows:

Can a $5-a-month virtual server run an OAuth2 Server? My virtual server has been my testbed for many IoT projects that make Web API calls to the web services that I have developed. None of these were as secure as I want them to be because I have never gone around implementing an OAuth2 server. Instead, I had mostly depended on POST with username and password to authenticate a user. This is not optimum and definitely not elegant. How do I even sleep at night!?