Caution

GenerateArea has been deprecated and is no longer supported.

What is GenerateArea?

GenerateArea is an free, open source & easy-to-use hosting account and support management system for MyOwnFreeHost. It is a fork of Xera. It currently has the features listed below:

Features

• User management
• Theme management
• Support tickets
• Administrative backend
• Intergration with:
  • MyOwnFreeHost
  • Captcha support from Google reCAPTCHA, CryptoLoot, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile
  • Integration for GoGetSSL, Site.pro, Wayback Machine, SMTP
• Update manager
• Multi-lingual

Examples of free web hosts that use GenerateArea

• https://app.fluxum.eu.org/ (Fluxum)
• https://app.generatehost.com/ (GenerateHost)

Getting started

Requirements

Your server needs to meet the following minimum requirements to run GenerateArea:

• PHP 7.2 or above. (PHP 8.0, 8.1 & 8.2 is not supported currently)
• MySQL 5.7 or above.
• A valid, trusted SSL certificate from a certifcate authortity like Let's Encrypt.

Installation

The installation of GenerateArea is much easier than you think!

• Download the GenerateArea installation files here. Alternatively, if you want the latest development version you can get it here.
• Extract the file and upload the contents to your web hosting account.
• Create a new database for GenerateArea.
• Go to https://{your.domain}/{garea-directory}/install.php and click on the 'Get Started' button.
• Set your website's Website URL, Cookie Prefix, enable CSRF Protection and hit the 'Next Step' button.
• Edit the database credentials and click on the 'Next Step' button (this will automatically import tables and records to the database).
• Register an admin account and login to your admin panel.
• Replace the logo and favicon located in assets/default/img/ with your own.
• Setup SMTP (see below for some services you can use).
• All done!

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Links

• Introduction Video
• Installation Video
• Badge

SMTP

Here are some widely used SMTP services. They have free plans with some limitations, most importantly though, they are compatible with GenerateArea.

• Mailgun.

Note
Mailgun seems to offer only a trial plan for a month, and without adding a credit card you are only authorized to send emails to 5 recipients. Therefore, you may want to choose another service.

• Mailjet.
• SendGrid.
• Smtp2go
• Brevo (formerly Sendinblue)
• Gmail SMTP

Copyright

This build was created by ChippyTech and maintained by GenerateApps. Code released under the GPL-2.0 license.
Fork of the client area Xera.