New installs
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1. Unless you are already using the MySQL server or you are running it
remotely you will need to ensure that the server is installed and secured:
sudo yum install community-mysql-server
sudo systemctl enable mysqld
sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
mysql_secure_installation
NOTE: The Fedora team currently recommends mysql-community over mariadb
2. Using the password for the root account set during the previous step, you
will need to create the ZoneMinder database, assuming your database server
is local:
mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql
mysqladmin -uroot -p reload
3. The database needs a user. One is not created by default because this would
introduce an obvious security issue. The following should set this up:
mysql -u root -p
grant select,insert,update,delete,lock tables,alter on zm.* to
'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';
Obviously, change at least zmpass to an actual, secure password or
passphrase. You can change zmuser as well if you like.
4. Edit /etc/zm.conf and, at the bottom, change ZM_DB_PASS and perhaps
ZM_DB_USER to match.
5. Edit /etc/php.ini, uncomment the date.timezone line, and add your local
timezone. For whatever reason, PHP will complain loudly if this is not set,
or if it is set incorrectly, and these complaints will show up in the
zoneminder logging system as errors.
If you are not sure of the proper timezone specification to use, look at
http://php.net/date.timezone
6. This package probably does not work with SELinux enabled at the moment. It
may be necessary to disable SELinux for httpd, or even completely for
ZoneMinder to function. This will be addressed in a later release. Run
sudo setenforce 0
for testing, and edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux to disable it at boot time.
7. IMPORTANT: Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/zoneminder.conf and/or
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
The httpd.conf file included with this version of Fedora processes the conf.d
folder after the default ScriptAlias directive in the httpd.conf file.
Previously, the conf.d folder was processed before the default ScriptAlias
directive. This causes a ScriptAlias overlap and breaks Zoneminder's
streaming abilities.
Reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_alias.html#order
Bug Report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973067
WORKAROUND #1
If you are running zoneminder on a dedicated server then the simplest
solution may be to simply comment out the line in httpd.conf that reads:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
WORKAROUND #2
If you need both the default cgi-bin folder & the zoneminder cgi-bin folder
then a solution might be to move the following line before the default
ScriptAlias directive in the httpd.conf file:
IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf
8. Now start the web server:
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
9. You should immediately visit http://localhost/zm and secure the system if
it is network facing. To do this:
a) click Options, then System.
b) check OPT_USE_AUTH.
c) set AUTH_HASH_SECRET to a random string.
d) click Save and refresh the main browser window.
e) You should be prompted to log in;
the default username/password is admin/admin.
f) Open Options again, choose the newly visible Users tab.
g) click the admin user and set a password.
h) enable OPT_CONTROL on the Ssytem tab to enable ptz camera control.
10. The zoneminder.service file fails at present but the zmpkg.pl script
can be run as root to start zoneminder.
sudo zmpkg.pl start
To start zoneminder automatically, create /etc/rc.d/rc.local and place the
following inside it:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start
The rc.local file must be made executable.
Upgrades
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1. Update /etc/zm.conf. Check for any new settings and update the version
information. Comparing /etc/zm.conf and /etc/zm.conf.rpmnew should help to
do this.
2. Add additional permissions to the zmuser account:
mysql -u root -p
grant lock tables,alter on zm.* to
'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';
Since this is an upgrade, the assumption is that the zmuser account already
has select, insert, update, and delete permission.
3. You will need to upgrade the ZoneMinder database as described in the
manual. Only if the previous step was succesful, may you run zmupdate like
so:
sudo zmupdate.pl --version=<from version>
If unsure then run it this way:
sudo zmupdate.pl --user=root --pass=<mysql_root_pwd> --version=<from version>
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