MRBS - Meeting Room Booking System

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

MRBS, the Meeting Room Booking System, is a mature open source web application for booking meeting rooms and other shared resources. It gives your organisation a calendar driven booking interface, per user accounts, and an administration area for managing areas, rooms, and users, so people can see what is free and reserve it without email chains or spreadsheets. This image delivers MRBS fully installed, configured, and security hardened, so you have a working booking platform running within minutes of launch instead of spending hours assembling a web server, database, and PHP runtime yourself.

Who it is for: universities and colleges managing lecture theatres, labs and seminar rooms across multiple buildings; corporate offices that need self service meeting room reservations without email chains or spreadsheets; and co-working spaces and shared facilities coordinating hot desks, event rooms and equipment across changing user groups. MRBS scales from a handful of rooms to hundreds of bookable resources, with per area and per room granularity.

What you skip by using this image: a standard MRBS deployment requires you to install Apache, MySQL, PHP and its extensions, download and place the application, create a database and user, load the schema, edit the configuration file, and create the first administrator. This image completes all of that for you before first boot. Compared with a plain community image, this listing adds a production ready two disk layout, per instance credential rotation, and 24/7 expert support from cloudimg covering deployment guidance, room and area configuration, upgrades, performance tuning, and database administration.

Application stack: MRBS 1.12 on Apache 2.4, PHP 8.3 with the extensions MRBS needs, and MySQL 8.0. Authentication is database backed, so accounts live in the application database and the administrator is a real account with a hashed password, not a shared default.

Production ready storage: the MySQL database lives on its own dedicated, independently resizable EBS volume at /var/lib/mysql, and the MRBS web application on a second at /var/www, so each tier can be grown or snapshotted on its own and survives instance replacement. MySQL is bound to loopback, so the database is never exposed to the network; only SSH and the web port are reachable.

On the first boot of your instance, a one shot service generates a fresh MySQL password, a fresh application database password, and a fresh MRBS administrator password unique to that instance, loads the booking schema, and writes the credentials to a root only file, so no shared or default passwords ship in the image. Browse to the instance address and sign in to create areas and rooms, manage users, and start taking bookings. MRBS serves on whatever hostname or IP address you reach it on, so it works on a custom domain with no reconfiguration.

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