Ubuntu Server 11.10 64-bit with ZoneMinder 1.25.0 from source

From ZoneMinder

I just tested it in a freshly installed server, so I am pretty sure it works 100%.

This configuration installs ZoneMinder on /opt, and the web files are installed to /var/www, this way ZoneMinder is at the root of the Web server.

The ffmpeg package and libraries comes from the Ubuntu repositories.

Ubuntu initial setup

1. Install Ubuntu Server 11.10 x86_64

When installing do not configure the network, this will make the installation process a lot faster. Once the machine boots with the new operating system you'll configure the network as the first step.

2. Configure network interface

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

And make changes similar to this

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.10
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 192.168.1.1

3. Configure the DNS client:

sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

Adjust the domain name and DNS server

domain local
nameserver 192.168.1.1

4. Update the system:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Prerequisites for running ZoneMinder

5. This is required for running ZoneMinder:

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install perl
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Prerequisites for building ZoneMinder

This is required only for building (in case you are using a different machine for this purpose):

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavfilter-dev libavformat-dev \
libavutil-dev libpostproc-dev libswscale-dev libjpeg-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev

6. Configure Perl (Method 1: using APT): (somebody please check if this is complete)

apt-get install libdbi-perl libarchive-tar-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl \
libdevice-serialport-perl libmime-perl libpcre3 libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl \
libsys-mmap-perl 

Configure Perl (Method 2: manually with CPAN):

sudo su - root
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install CPAN
install Date::Manip
install LWP::UserAgent
install Sys::Mmap
install Device::SerialPort
install Net::FTP
install Net::SFTP::Foreign
install Archive::Tar
install Archive::Zip
install Net::SMTP
install MIME::Lite
install MIME::Entity
install X10::ActiveHome
exit
exit

Building ZoneMinder from source

7. Set GCC environment variables:

export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" && \
export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" && \
export CPPFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS"

8. Get ZoneMinder source code and install it

wget http://www2.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.25.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ZoneMinder-1.25.0.tar.gz

9. Compile ZoneMinder

cd ZoneMinder-1.25.0
./configure --prefix=/opt/zm --with-libarch=lib64 --with-mysql=/usr --with-ffmpeg=/usr \
--with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --disable-debug --disable-crashtrace \
--enable-mmap=yes --with-webdir=/var/www --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin \
ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl
make

10. Install ZoneMinder binaries and configure MySQL database

sudo make install
mysql -u root -p < db/zm_create.sql
mysql -u root -p
grant select,insert,update,delete on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';
quit
mysqladmin -u root -p reload

11. Install Cambazola

cd
wget http://www.charliemouse.com:8080/code/cambozola/cambozola-latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf cambozola-latest.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/zm
sudo cp cambozola-0.xx/dist/cambozola.jar /var/www/zm
sudo  chown www-data:www-data /var/www/zm/cambozola.jar

12. Create the init file for ZoneMinder (/etc/init.d/zm):

sudo vi /etc/init.d/zm

And copy the following:

#!/bin/sh
# description: Control ZoneMinder as a Service
# chkconfig: 2345 99 99

# Source function library.
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

prog=ZoneMinder
ZM_PATH_BIN="/opt/zm/bin"
command="$ZM_PATH_BIN/zmpkg.pl"

start() {
        echo -n "Starting $prog: "
        $command start
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
        [ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n "Stopping $prog: "
        $command stop
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
        [ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
}
status() {
        result=`$command status`
        if [ "$result" = "running" ]; then
                echo "ZoneMinder is running"
                RETVAL=0
        else
                echo "ZoneMinder is stopped"
                RETVAL=1
        fi
}

case "$1" in
'start')
        start
        ;;
'stop')
        stop
        ;;
'restart')
        stop
        start
        ;;
'status')
        status
        ;;
*)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart | status }"
        RETVAL=1
        ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

13. Set permissions to it:

sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/zm
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zm

14. Create links for rc2.d and rc3.d

cd /etc/rc2.d
sudo ln -s ../init.d/zm S92zm
cd /etc/rc1.d
sudo ln -s ../init.d/zm K10zm

15. Start ZoneMinder:

sudo /etc/init.d/zm start

16. Open your browser and point it to http://hostname/

NOTE: For me, installing on a freshly installed copy of Ubuntu Desktop 11.10 64-bit, following all of the instructions above worked EXCEPT I needed to edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to add the following lines:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

AddType text/html php

then do:

apachectl -k graceful

Otherwise, Apache kept trying to force the browser to download index.php as a file and not service it as a webpage.

Default install of ubuntu server and apache, had to remove /var/www/index.html for http://hostname/ to work. Otherwise had to access http://hostname/index.php