New installs ============ NOTE: EL7 users should replace "dnf" with "yum" in the instructions below. 1. Unless you are already using MariaDB server, you need to ensure that the server is configured to start during boot and properly secured by running: sudo dnf install mariadb-server sudo systemctl enable mariadb sudo systemctl start mariadb.service mysql_secure_installation 2. Assuming the database is local and using the password for the root account set during the previous step, you will need to create the ZoneMinder database and configure a database account for ZoneMinder to use: 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 The database account credentials, zmuser/zmpass, are arbitrary. Set them to anything that suits your environment. 3. If you have chosen to change the zoneminder database account credentials to something other than zmuser/zmpass, you must now create a config file under /etc/zm/conf.d and set your credentials there. For example, create the file /etc/zm/conf.d/zm-db-user.conf and add the following content to it: ZM_DB_USER = {username of the sql account you want to use} ZM_DB_PASS = {password of the sql account you want to use} Once the file has been saved, set proper file & ownership permissions on it: sudo chown root:apache *.conf sudo chmod 640 *.conf 4. Manually setting the timezone in /etc/php.ini is deprecated. Instead, navigate to Options -> System from the ZoneMinder web console. Do this after completing step 10, below. Note that timezone errors will appear in the ZoneMinder log until this has been completed. 5. Disable SELinux SELinux must be disabled or put into permissive mode. This is not optional! To immediately disbale SELinux for the current seesion, issue the following from the command line: sudo setenforce 0 To permanently disable SELinux, edit /etc/selinux/config and change the SELINUX line from "enforcing" to "disabled". This change will take effect after a reboot. 6. Configure the web server This package uses the HTTPS protocol by default to access the web portal, using the default self signed certificate on your system. Requests using HTTP will auto-redirect to HTTPS. Inspect the web server configuration file and verify it meets your needs: /etc/zm/www/zoneminder.httpd.conf If you are running other web enabled services then you may need to edit this file to suite. See README.https to learn about other alternatives. When in doubt, proceed with the default: sudo ln -sf /etc/zm/www/zoneminder.httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/ sudo dnf install mod_ssl 7. Now start the web server: sudo systemctl enable httpd sudo systemctl start httpd 8. Now start zoneminder: sudo systemctl enable zoneminder sudo systemctl start zoneminder 9. Optionally configure the firewall All Redhat distros ship with the firewall enabled. That means you will not be able to access the ZoneMinder web console from a remote machine until changes are made to the firewall. What follows are a set of minimal commands to allow remote access to the ZoneMinder web console and also allow ZoneMinder's ONVIF discovery to work. The following commands do not put any restrictions on which remote machine(s) have access to the listed ports or services. sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=3702/udp sudo firewall-cmd --reload Additional changes to the firewall may be required, depending on your security requirements and how you use the system. It is up to you to verify these commands are sufficient. 10. Access the ZoneMinder web console You may now access the ZoneMinder web console from your web browser using an appropriate url. Here are some examples: http://localhost/zm (works from the local machine only) http://{machine name}/zm (works only if dns is configured for your network) http://{ip address}/zm Upgrades ======== 1. Conf.d folder support has been added to ZoneMinder. Any custom changes previously made to zm.conf must now be made in one or more custom config files, created under the conf.d folder. Do this now. See /etc/zm/conf.d/README for details. Once you recreate any custom config changes under the conf.d folder, they will remain in place indefinitely. 2. Verify permissions of the zmuser account. Over time, the database account permissions required for normal operation have increased. Verify the zmuser database account has been granted all permission to the ZoneMinder database: mysql -uroot -p -e "show grants for zmuser@localhost;" See step 2 of the Installation section to add missing permissions. 3. Verify the ZoneMinder Apache configuration file in the folder /etc/zm/www. You will have a file called "zoneminder.httpd.conf" and there may also be one or more files with "rpmnew" extenstion. If the rpmnew file exists, inspect it and merge anything new in that file with zoneminder.conf. Verify the SSL Requirements meet your needs. Read README.https if necessary. The contents of this file must be merged into your Apache configuration. See step 6 of the installation section if you have not already done this during a previous upgrade. IMPORTANT: Failure to complete this step properly will result in a mostly empty or significantly corrupted web console post-upgrade. 4. Upgrade the database before starting ZoneMinder. Most upgrades can be performed by executing the following command: sudo zmupdate.pl Recent versions of ZoneMinder don't require any parameters added to the zmupdate command. However, if ZoneMinder complains, you may need to call zmupdate in the following manner: sudo zmupdate.pl --user=root --pass= --version= 5. Now restart the web server then start zoneminder: sudo systemctl restart httpd sudo systemctl start zoneminder 6. Manually setting the timezone in /etc/php.ini is deprecated. Instead, navigate to Options -> System from the ZoneMinder web console. Do this now. Note that timezone errors will appear in the ZoneMinder log until this has been completed.