My Notes: November 2021

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Requirements:

Installing packages

# apt-get install zoneminder apache2 mariadb-server-10.5 mariadb-client-10.5 php php7.4 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-mysql

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

# chown root:www-data /etc/zm/ -R

# a2enmod cgi

# a2enmod rewrite

# a2enconf zoneminder

Set root password (optional). For the first time after installation, password for mariadb root is blank.

# mysqladmin -u root -p password yournewpass

Create DB, User and Password. Omit option -p for mariadb root if you do not set password.

# mysql –u root –p

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'zmuser' IDENTIFIED BY 'zmpass';

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE zm;

MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zm.* TO 'zmuser'@'localhost';

Creating DB

# mysql -u zmuser -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql

NOTE: if change user, password or database, you need to change file in /etc/zm/zm.conf

# ZoneMinder database name

ZM_DB_NAME=zm

# ZoneMinder database user

ZM_DB_USER=zmuser

# ZoneMinder database password

ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass

Restarting services

# systemctl restart apache2

# systemctl restart zoneminder

From browser open URL http://localhost/zm

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