diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 070bbc3d8..ec021d210 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,52 @@ scripts/ZoneMinder/blib
 Makefile.in
 Makefile
 docs/_build
+
+config.guess
+config.h
+config.log
+config.status
+config.sub
+db/zm_create.sql
+misc/apache.conf
+misc/com.zoneminder.systemctl.policy
+misc/com.zoneminder.systemctl.rules
+misc/logrotate.conf
+misc/syslog.conf
+scripts/ZoneMinder/MYMETA.yml
+scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Base.pm
+scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Config.pm
+scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/ConfigData.pm
+scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Memory.pm
+scripts/ZoneMinder/pm_to_blib
+scripts/zm
+scripts/zmaudit.pl
+scripts/zmcamtool.pl
+scripts/zmcontrol.pl
+scripts/zmdbbackup
+scripts/zmdbrestore
+scripts/zmdc.pl
+scripts/zmeventdump
+scripts/zmfilter.pl
+scripts/zmlogrotate.conf
+scripts/zmpkg.pl
+scripts/zmsystemctl.pl
+scripts/zmtrack.pl
+scripts/zmtrigger.pl
+scripts/zmupdate.pl
+scripts/zmvideo.pl
+scripts/zmwatch.pl
+scripts/zmx10.pl
+src/.deps/
+src/*.o
+src/zm_config.h
+src/zm_config_defines.h
+src/zma
+src/zmc
+src/zmf
+src/zms
+src/zmstreamer
+src/zmu
+web/includes/config.php
+zm.conf
+zmconfgen.pl
diff --git a/utils/travis/bootstrap-zm.sh b/utils/travis/bootstrap-zm.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..397a8f90e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/travis/bootstrap-zm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash -x
+
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
+set -x
+
+with_timestamps() {
+	while read -r line; do
+	echo -e "$(date +%T)\t$line";
+	done
+}
+
+
+bootstrap_zm() {
+
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "autotools" ]; then libtoolize --force; fi
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "autotools" ]; then aclocal; fi
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "autotools" ]; then autoheader; fi
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "autotools" ]; then automake --force-missing --add-missing; fi
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "autotools" ]; then autoconf; fi
+
+	mysql -uroot -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS zm"
+	mysql -uroot -e "GRANT ALL ON zm.* TO 'zmuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'zmpass'";
+	mysql -uroot -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES"
+	mysql -uzmuser -pzmpass < ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/db/zm_create.sql
+
+}
+
+bootstrap_zm | with_timestamps
diff --git a/utils/travis/build-zm.sh b/utils/travis/build-zm.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2d758f61b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/travis/build-zm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
+
+with_timestamps() {
+	while read -r line; do
+	echo -e "$(date +%T)\t$line";
+	done
+}
+
+cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
+
+build_zm() {
+
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "autotools" ]; then
+		./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libarch=lib/$DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE --host=$DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE --build=$DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE --with-mysql=/usr --with-ffmpeg=/usr --with-webdir=/usr/share/zoneminder/www --with-cgidir=/usr/libexec/zoneminder/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --enable-crashtrace=yes --disable-debug --enable-mmap=yes ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl
+	fi
+
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "cmake" ]; then
+		cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr"
+	fi
+
+	make
+	sudo make install
+
+	if [ "$ZM_BUILDMETHOD" = "cmake" ]; then
+		sudo ./zmlinkcontent.sh
+	fi
+
+}
+
+build_zm | with_timestamps
diff --git a/utils/travis/install-deps.sh b/utils/travis/install-deps.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d7981cb5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/travis/install-deps.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
+
+with_timestamps() {
+	while read -r line; do
+	echo -e "$(date +%T)\t$line";
+	done
+}
+
+
+install_deps() {
+
+	sudo apt-get update -qq
+	sudo apt-get install -y -qq zlib1g-dev apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql build-essential libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev libdbi-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libmime-perl libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm automake autoconf cmake libjpeg-turbo8-dev apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev 2>&1 > /dev/null 
+
+}
+
+install_deps | with_timestamps
diff --git a/utils/travis/install-ffmpeg.sh b/utils/travis/install-ffmpeg.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c2a2e9733
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/travis/install-ffmpeg.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+
+git clone --depth=10 --branch=master git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git 
+cd ffmpeg 
+./configure --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-gpl  --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora 
+make -j `grep processor /proc/cpuinfo|wc -l` 
+sudo make install 
+sudo make install-libs
diff --git a/utils/travis/run-tests.sh b/utils/travis/run-tests.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3bb392d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/travis/run-tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
+
+with_timestamps() {
+	while read -r line; do
+	echo -e "$(date +%T)\t$line";
+	done
+}
+
+run_tests() {
+	mysql -uzmuser -pzmpass zm < ../../db/test.monitor.sql
+	sudo zmu -l
+	sudo zmc -m1 &
+	sudo zma -m1 &
+	sudo zmu -l
+	sudo grep ERR /var/log/syslog
+	sudo zmpkg.pl start
+	sudo zmfilter.pl -f purgewhenfull
+}
+
+run_tests | with_timestamps