Ubuntu Server 18.04 64-bit with Zoneminder 1.32.x the easy way
Things to check before installing Zoneminder on Bionic!
We recommend you read the release notes to see what has changed in this version. The release notes can be found here: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/releases
There have been some reports of the install failing. We feel this is due to missing repositories in the sources.list. You can check this by running
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Look for the universe repositories of which there should be three, bionic universe, bionic-updates universe and bionic-security universe
See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
Install Zoneminder on Ubuntu 18.04 with shell script
This will install Zoneminder by using a shell script with one basic command (how easy is that!).
You will need a Ubuntu 18.04 install with LAMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP) installed desktop or server. As an alternate you may use Mariadb in lieu of MySQL
Shell script file contents:
#!/bin/sh clear read -p "This script installs Zoneminder 1.32.x on Ubuntu 18.04 AMD64 with LAMP (MySQL) installed... Press Enter to continue or Ctrl + c to quit" nothing clear read -p "You must be logged in as root using sudo su ... Press Enter to continue or Ctrl + c to quit" nothing clear read -p "Next we will add the PPA repository, install and configure the system to run Zoneminder. Press enter to continue" nothing apt install -y software-properties-common clear add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-1.32 apt update clear awk '$0="date.timezone = "$0' /etc/timezone >> /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini clear apt install -y zoneminder systemctl enable zoneminder service zoneminder start adduser www-data video a2enconf zoneminder a2enmod rewrite chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/ service apache2 reload clear read -p "Install complete.Press enter to continue" nothing clear
Copy the contents of the script, open a terminal and run:
nano zm-install
Paste the contents of the script into Nano
Then:
Ctrl + o Ctrl + x
Next run:
chmod 755 zm-install
Start the script by entering:
./zm-install
Follow the prompts. Things are pretty simple. The timezone will be detected from the OS and added to the php.ini.
Good Luck!
While this script worked for me I can't be responsible if you loose data when you run this. It is intended for a new install not an upgrade.
Install Apache2, Mariadb, PHP and Zoneminder on Ubuntu 18.04 with shell script
I created this to install Zoneminder on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ 64 BIT version of Bionic. Should work with other flavors of Bionic
See above for use
#!/bin/sh clear read -p "This script installs Apache2, Mariadb Server, PHP and Zoneminder 1.32.x on Ubuntu 18.04 ... Press Enter to continue or Ctrl + c to quit" nothing clear read -p "You must be logged in as root using sudo su ... Press Enter to continue or Ctrl + c to quit" nothing apt install -y apache2 php mariadb-server php-mysql libapache2-mod-php7.2 clear read -p "Next secure MySQL server by entering requested information. Press enter to continue" nothing mysql_secure_installation clear read -p "Next we will add the PPA repository, install and configure the system to run Zoneminder. Press enter to continue" nothing apt install -y software-properties-common clear add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-1.32 apt update clear awk '$0="date.timezone = "$0' /etc/timezone >> /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini clear apt install -y zoneminder systemctl enable zoneminder service zoneminder start adduser www-data video a2enconf zoneminder a2enmod rewrite chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/ service apache2 reload clear read -p "Install complete.Press enter to continue" nothing clear
Ubuntu 18.04 LEMP (NGNIX, Mariadb, PHP)
Thanks to "terdinglage" for the input to get this to work!
Start with a basic Ubuntu 18.04 install. You can use a server or desktop install. Do not install LAMP!
Become root
sudo su
Install Ngnix, Mariadb and PHP components
apt install nginx mariadb-server php-fpm php-mysql fcgiwrap
Secure the Mariadb server
mysql_secure_installation
Restart Mariadb
systemctl restart mysql
Edit the php.ini file
nano /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
Locate (Ctrl+w) cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 and change to
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
Remember to remove the leading ;
Also fix date. Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and make changes as follows for your time zone. Make sure to remove the ; from the front of date.timezone
[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 php-fpm
systemctl restart php7.2-fpm
Add Repository
NOTE:You may need to run: "apt install software-properties-common" if you did the minimal net install of Ubuntu.
add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-1.32
Install Zoneminder
apt install zoneminder
Create a new user if you plan to use local (USB or capture card) cameras.
adduser www-data video
Fix Permissions
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/
Change the ZM_PATH_ZMS in the 01-system-paths.conf file to /cgi-bin/nph-zms by dropping the /zm/
nano /etc/zm/conf.d/01-system-paths.conf
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Enable and start Zoneminder
systemctl enable zoneminder
service zoneminder start
Edit the Ngnix default configuration.
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Locate the line "index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;" and add index.php
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
In the "server" section after listen [::] :80 default_Server; add
include /etc/nginx/zoneminder.conf;
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Create a Zoneminder conf file
nano /etc/nginx/zoneminder.conf
Enter the following into the zoneminder.conf file (This file was improved by databoy2k)
location /cgi-bin {
auth_basic off;
alias /usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
}
location /zm/cache {
auth_basic off;
alias /var/cache/zoneminder/cache;
}
location ~ /zm/api/(css|img|ico) {
auth_basic off;
rewrite ^/zm/api(.+)$ /api/app/webroot/$1 break;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /zm {
auth_basic off;
alias /usr/share/zoneminder/www;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args =404;
location /zm/api {
auth_basic off;
rewrite ^/zm/api(.+)$ /zm/api/app/webroot/index.php?p=$1 last;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
auth_basic off;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
}
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Restart Ngnix
service nginx restart
Note: If Nginx gives you an error on restart go back one step and re-enter include /etc/ngnix/zoneminder.conf;
Note: 29JUL18 Thanks to Tiver for this suggestion that seems to work with the fcgiwrap issue.
If it does not exist create
nano /etc/default/fcgiwrap
and insert (with the number of children -c equal to the number of cameras)
DAEMON_OPTS=-c 10
then restart the fcgiwrap service.
systemctl restart fcgiwrap
