Room Booking Database/Web based (.asp)

[Doudar]

Has anyone getting webmans room booking program working on a Windows server? We have installed it but get his customized “404 Page Not Found” error page when trying to access the main index.php page.

 

 

Regards

 

 

John D

[webman]

Doudar: Is that on Apache or IIS? And if IIS, how do you have PHP installed? I must admit I've never put PHP on IIS before.

[Rozzer]

We have over the last 6 months been using this room booking system. http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/. It is open source and has ldap authentication aswell.

 

Deff worth a shot!

 

Ross

[Doudar]

Doudar: Is that on Apache or IIS? And if IIS, how do you have PHP installed? I must admit I've never put PHP on IIS before.

 

Hi, we have IIS 5, PHP 4.3.10 and MySQL 4.1 both work fine as we have other php apps running on the server (Win 2K server), one or zero helpdesk.

 

Regards

 

John D

[plexer]

Ross: The issue I have with mrbs is that as we run a 2 week timetable and the 2 weeks are seperate using mrbs I had to set it up for each half term as the week for half term wasn't counted.

 

Webmans solution allows you to allocate what the weeks in a year belong too which works perfectly for us.

 

Ben

[Scotmk]

For any one intrested-

Version 3.4.4 of our booking system available for download.

This has a lot of bug fixes over earlier versions.

http://folders.devizes.wilts.sch.uk/download/BookingSystem3/index.asp

SQL support aren’t included in this version.

Feed back on problems would be good.

Ian Mullings

Devizes School ICT Support

 

I have successfully implemented this system today and got rid of the old paper version up in the staffroom, within minutes some staff already started using it. What a great peice of software, well done Ian, keep up the good work.

[DSapseid]

Well. Classroombookings is here

 

I've let staff loose with it at our place and seems to be going OK at the moment. I'll be setting up a forum on the site shortly for you to direct any feedback/support requests to There's installation documentation included with the download which I'll be expanding on in the near future.

 

 

Webman

 

When i try and download this it just gives me a page canot be displayed message!

 

Dan

[webman]

Try this URL

 

http://classroombookings.com/media/download_gallery/crbs-1.0.0.tar.gz

[DSapseid]

Nope same error i have attached a screenshot.

[plexer]

Works for me must be your ie7 setup?

 

Ben

[DSapseid]

Ben

 

Nope is not just ie7 does it in firefox2 and also on of the servers in ie6 which bypasses the ISA server!

 

Dan

[Geoff]

Do you have some LEA/RBC filtering doing something 'interesting'?

[DSapseid]

I downloaded it at home in the end.

 

It says i need apache on the server that i install it on but when i google apache i get lots of different versions and am a bit confused as to what one i need. I will be running it on a windows 2003 server. Also do i just follow the instructions for installing on linux for installing on windows??

 

Thanks guy but am completely new at this sort of thing.

[webman]

I recommend using the WAMP package for Apache on Windows, it's very easy to install.

 

The instructions are similar; but you can usually ignore the premissions section and use the WAMP tray icon to enable the modules:

• Apache modules > rewrite_module
  
• PHP settings > PHP extensions > php_gd2

[Jake]

So I am still fiddling about with various booking systems, seems I keep finding ones which do 80% of what I want, but then something crops up and my needs change.

 

Does anyone know if there is a system out there which will allow me to make it so that certain teachers can only book certain rooms, so if we had IT rooms A,B,C and D , one particular teacher could book rooms B and C , but not A or D. But then a different teacher would be able to book A and B, but not C and D....

 

Sheesh..thats a bad explanation

[webman]

If they're open source you could hack the changes yourself

[DSapseid]

@weman Sorry me again :oops:. I have just been trying to install your system and am strugling to even get the mysql and php running!! What software do you reccomend as there is lots out there and i have tried 3 in the past hour and all dont seem to work. I have downloaded that wamp thing as per a previous post i need a php, mysql and a admin thing for the php/mysql if you could

 

Cheers

 

Dan

[webman]

Hi Dan,

 

WAMP includes Apache with PHP and MySQL all in one, so once you have that installed and working, you have 90% of it done. When your browse to http://localhost/ (on the WAMP machine) you will get a grey-ish page with 'WAMP' at the top - and there is a link on there to phpMyAdmin.

[DSapseid]

Ahh didnt relise that my bad. When i go to localhost it just gives me the welcome iis page so i looked to see if all the correct services had started ok and i noticed the wampapache service wasnt started but everytime i try and start i get an error message (attached). I have tried starting the service that it refers to but i get the same message!!

[Geoff]

You need to find the apache error log. That'll give you more information as to why it's not running.

[webman]

Ah. That's because of Apache and IIS do the same thing - serve web pages, and on the same TCP port (80). If one service has opened the port, another cannot use the same one.

 

If you don't use IIS, just disable it. If you do, then you will need to run Apache on another port (81 for example) but all URLs to it will have to be http://hostname:81/ for example.

[DSapseid]

Ah found an error in the logs - didnt even think of that!!

 

"[Thu Jun 07 16:02:34 2007] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: make_sock: could not bind to port 80"

[DSapseid]

yep webman hit the nail on the head!! all working fine now.

 

Cheers Guys

 

Dan

[DSapseid]

Sorry its me again :oops: :oops:

 

Right ive done all the steps in the install instructions but when i try and launch it in the web browser i get the error "Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings."

[WiPPaH]

Hi Guys,

 

I've got Webmans CRBS system installed on a 2k3 Server with WAMP and it seems to be running fine however I am having issues with the uploads. Everytime I create a room or add the School logo I get the error:

 

"The upload path does not appear to be valid."

 

Because I am using WAMP I assume I dont have to chmod the directory's? I have also allowed "System" and "everyone" Full Access over the Wamp\www directory.

 

Can anyone offer any assistance on this?

 

Cheers guys.