Ubuntu Server or Desktop Zoneminder 1.34.x

Zoneminder 1.30.4 made it into the "official" Ubuntu 18.10 repositories. You will need to install LAMP then secure MySQL before installing Zoneminder. I use a very minimum install from the 18.10 mini.iso.

Here are the basic commands you will need. As always start from a root (sudo su) prompt.

Secure MySQL or Mariadb

mysql_secure_installation

Add entry into my.cnf

nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Add the following to the end of the file

[mysqld]
sql_mode = NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

CTRL + o CTRL +x

Restart MySQL

systemctl restart mysql

Install Zoneminder

apt install zoneminder

The database is not created automatically. Create the database with

mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql

mysql -uroot -p -e "grant all on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';"

mysqladmin -uroot -p reload

Fix permissions

chmod 740 /etc/zm/zm.conf

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

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

Enable Zoneminder service

systemctl enable zoneminder.service

Add a user for local cameras

adduser www-data video

Enable Apache Features

a2enmod cgi

a2enmod rewrite

a2enconf zoneminder

Add timezone to PHP

nano /etc/php/7.2/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

Zoneminder should work! Open Zoneminder in a web browser (http://server-ip/zm).