Ubuntu Server 14.04 64-bit with Zoneminder 1.30.4 the easy way
Zoneminder 1.30.4 on Ubuntu Server 14.04.5
Install Basic Server (if you used the mini.iso), OpenSSH Server, and LAMP Server
Log in then become root:
sudo su
Make sure you are up to date
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade
Add Repository (if you get an error run: apt-get install software-properties-common)
add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder
Update Sources
apt-get update
Install Zoneminder and php5-apc
apt-get install zoneminder php5-apc
You may be prompted to set up Nulmailer. You may accept the defaults and set this up later if you want to use it.
Add delay to allow MySQL to start before Zoneminder
nano /etc/init.d/zoneminder
Add sleep 15 after the existing "start() {" as shown:
start() {
sleep 15
echo -n "Starting $prog: "
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Create a new user
adduser www-data video
Enable CGI, Zoneminder and rewrite configuration in Apache.
a2enmod cgi
a2enconf zoneminder
a2enmod rewrite
Start Zoneminder if needed (If you get an error Zoneminder is likely running already)
service zoneminder start
Add timezone to PHP
nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and make changes as follows for your time zone
[Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions ; http://php.net/date.timezone date.timezone = America/New_York
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Restart Apache
service apache2 reload
Open Zoneminder in a web browser (http://server-ip/zm).
Click on Options - Paths Change PATH_ZMS to /zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms (Caution: make sure you enter only /zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms with no space at the end or your video will not work!)
Reboot your server to set the tmp directories for API.
Verified to work as written 14APR17
