Debian¶
Easy Way: Debian Jessie¶
Step 1: Setup Sudo
By default Debian does not come with sudo. Log in as root or use su command. N.B. The instructions below are for setting up sudo for your current account, you can do this as root if you prefer.
apt-get update
apt-get install sudo
usermod -a -G sudo <username>
exit
Logout or try newgrp
to reload user groups
Step 2: Run sudo and update
Now run session using sudo and ensure system is updated.
sudo -i
apt-get upgrade
Step 3: Install Apache and MySQL
These are not dependencies for the package as they could be installed elsewhere.
apt-get install apache2 mysql-server
Step 4: Edit sources.list to add jessie-backports
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following to the bottom of the file
# Backports repository
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free
CTRL+o and <Enter> to save CTRL+x to exit
Step 5: Install ZoneMinder
apt-get update
apt-get install zoneminder
Step 6: Read the Readme
The rest of the install process is covered in the README.Debian, so feel free to have a read.
gunzip /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian.gz
cat /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian
Step 7: Setup Database
Install the zm database and setup the user account. Refer to Hints in Ubuntu install should you choose to change default database user and password.
cat /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql | sudo mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf
echo 'grant lock tables,alter,create,select,insert,update,delete,index on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by "zmpass";' | sudo mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf mysql
** Step 8:** zm.conf Permissions
Adjust permissions to the zm.conf file to allow web account to access it.
chgrp -c www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf
Step 9: Setup ZoneMinder service
systemctl enable zoneminder130.service
Step 10: Configure Apache
The following commands will setup the default /zm virtual directory and configure required apache modules.
a2enconf zoneminder
a2enmod cgi
a2enmod rewrite
Step 11: Edit Timezone in PHP
nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and change date.timezone for your time zone. Don’t forget to remove the ; from in 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 then [Enter] to save
CTRL+x to exit
Step 12: Start ZoneMinder
Reload Apache to enable your changes and then start ZoneMinder.
systemctl reload apache2
systemctl start zoneminder
Step 13: Making sure ZoneMinder works
Open up a browser and go to
http://hostname_or_ip/zm
- should bring up ZoneMinder Console(Optional API Check)Open up a tab in the same browser and go to
http://hostname_or_ip/zm/api/host/getVersion.json
If it is working correctly you should get version information similar to the example below:
{ "version": "1.29.0", "apiversion": "1.29.0.1" }
Congratulations Your installation is complete