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:
yum install mysql-community or
yum install mysql (Mariadb)
sudo systemctl mysqld enable
sudo system mysqld start
mysql_secure_installation
2. You will need to create the ZoneMinder database. These commands should do
the trick, assuming your database server is local:
mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql
mysqladmin 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 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
setenforce 0
for testing, and edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux to disable it at boot time.
7. The zoneminder.service file fails at present but the zmpkg.pl script
can be run as root to start zoneminder.
sudo zmpkg.pl start
8. The ZoneMinder web interface is disabled by default (which makes it rather
useless but also secure by default), you will need to edit
/etc/httpd/conf.d/zoneminder.conf to enable it. Afterwards, you can 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.
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. You will need to upgrade the ZoneMinder database as described in the
manual. This command should be sufficient when run as root:
zmupdate.pl --user=root --pass={mysql_root_pwd} --version=<from version>
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