Ubuntu Server 15.04 or 15.10 64-bit with Zoneminder 1.30.0 the easy way

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Zoneminder 1.30.0 from PPA on Ubuntu 15.04 or 15.10

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 

add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder

Update Sources 

apt-get update

Install Zoneminder 

apt-get install zoneminder

You may be prompted to set up Nulmailer. You may accept the defaults and set this up later if you want to use it.

Set permissions of /etc/zm/zm.conf to root:www-data 740 

chmod 740 /etc/zm/zm.conf

chown root:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf

Create a new user 

adduser www-data video

Enable CGI, Zoneminder and rewrite configuration in Apache. 

a2enmod cgi

a2enconf zoneminder

a2enmod rewrite

Fix Permissions 

chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/

Enable and start Zoneminder 

systemctl enable zoneminder

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!)

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