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Install zoneminder 1.36 on Debian 12 fresh

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:35 am

by zemerdon

Debian 12 with Zoneminder 1.36.x
Debian 12 Bookworm is released with Zoneminder 1.36.33 and as usual for Debian the zm database needs to be created manually.

Note: This version has been verified with Bookworm Debian 12 official release. A few issues have been found and corrected. Zoneminder now opens in Firefox (Windows, Linux and Android), Edge, Chrome (on Android). ZmNinja on Android also works. If using ZmNinja you may have to clear the API cache. Please report other errors on the Zoneminder forum.

In time a version of Zoneminder for Bookworm will be made available in the zmrepo.

You will have to install sudo and add the user to the sudoers file.

Become root with

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su

Install sudo

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apt install sudo

Then add the user

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/sbin/adduser username sudo

I recommend rebooting at this point but a log out and back in also works.

Become root

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sudo su

Timezone: it is recommended you set your specific timesone with:

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timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Brisbane

Install Apache2, PHP and your favorite database (Mariadb recommended). A quick way to install LAMP is:

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apt install apache2 mariadb-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql lsb-release gnupg2 wget

Add timezone to PHP (This may not be necessary but does not hurt and will allow the time of events to be displayed correctly)

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nano /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and make changes as follows for your time zone

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[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = Australia/Brisbane

Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit

Restart Apache

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service apache2 restart

Install Zoneminder

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apt install zoneminder

Create Zoneminder database in MySQL (Note: this also creates the default Zoneminder user and permissions in MySQL) Use the server root password when prompted.

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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

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chmod 640 /etc/zm/zm.conf
chown root:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/cache/zoneminder/
chmod 755 /var/cache/zoneminder/

Replace zoneminder.conf

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cp /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf.sav
rm /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf
nano /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf

Paste the following content into nano:

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# Remember to enable cgi mod (i.e. "a2enmod cgi").
ScriptAlias /zm/cgi-bin "/usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin"
<Directory "/usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin">
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>


# Order matters. This alias must come first.
Alias /zm/cache "/var/cache/zoneminder"
<Directory "/var/cache/zoneminder">
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        # Apache 2.4
        Require all granted
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

Alias /zm /usr/share/zoneminder/www
<Directory /usr/share/zoneminder/www>
  Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
  <IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
  </IfModule>
</Directory>

# For better visibility, the following directives have been migrated from the
# default .htaccess files included with the CakePHP project.
# Parameters not set here are inherited from the parent directive above.
<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api">
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
   RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
   RewriteBase /zm/api
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app">
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
   RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
   RewriteBase /zm/api
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot">
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    RewriteBase /zm/api
</Directory>

Enable Zoneminder service to start at boot

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systemctl enable zoneminder.service

Add www-data to the sudo group (to enable use of local video devices)

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adduser www-data video

Start Zoneminder

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systemctl start zoneminder.service

Enable Zoneminder configuration in Apache.

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a2enconf zoneminder
a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod headers
a2enmod expires
a2enmod cgi
service apache2 reload

Install complete. Open Zoneminder/Options and set the timezone in Options/System. Add cameras.