Debian 12 Bookworm with Zoneminder 1.36.x and 1.37.x
Debian 9 with Zoneminder 1.30.4
This page is in process of updating 04JUN17 and is not complete or verified!!!
Use Debian 9 net install CD. Install only: web server, SSH server and standard system utilities from tasksel
Login and become root (su root) or prepend sudo to the following commands
If needed check to make sure you are up to date
apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade
Install additional LAMP components (Mariadb server recommended)
apt install php mariadb-server php-mysql apache2-mod-php7.0
Secure Mariadb, create root password et. al.
mysql_secure_installation
Or to install MySQL Server
apt install php default-mysql-server php-mysql apache2-mod-php7.0
Add the Deb Multimedia repository. (instructions at: https://deb-multimedia.org/)
Edit sources.list
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Add to the end of the file:
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
After you have added the necessary line in /etc/apt/sources.list the first package to install is deb-multimedia-keyring.
apt-get update apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
Update packages list:
apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade
Install Zoneminder
apt install zoneminder
Create Zoneminder database in MySQL (Note: this also creates the default Zoneminder user and permissions in MySQL)
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
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
Enable Zoneminder service to start at boot
systemctl enable zoneminder.service
Add www-data to the sudo group (to enable use of local video devices)
adduser www-data video
Start Zoneminder
systemctl start zoneminder.service
Check to see that Zoneminder is running
systemctl status zoneminder.service
Enable CGI and Zoneminder configuration in Apache.
a2enmod cgi
a2enmod rewrite
a2enconf zoneminder
Add timezone to PHP
nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and make changes as follows for your time zone. Be sure to remove the ; before 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
Change permissions in /usr/share/zoneminder/
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/
Restart Apache
service apache2 restart
