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Are you serious? I know there not "your" how-to's you couldn't possibly write something like this because you don't know anything about zoneminder. You asked this: "I am not sure what it is you are saying is done incorrectly." I just explained it to you above. Maybe I'm not being clear. 1. /zm ...

Well lets try it this way: 1. In your how-to's explain to me why step 4 in http://handband.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu:ZoneMinder is needed and why it isn't listed in any of the other how-to's? 2. How does Apache know that /zm/zoneminder exsists? 3. What does the Alias directive in your apache ...

Here are the HowTo's I reviewed to do the install: 1) http://handband.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu:ZoneMinder 2) http://www.howtoforge.com/video_surveillance_zoneminder_ubuntu and of course: 3) Debian http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/ZoneMinder_install.doc or http://www.zoneminder ...

His configuration is just not right and some how there are duplicates which means somethings were done that should have never been. The question becomes what was done as it needs to be undone. my guess would be the php files should be in the /usr/share/zoneminder directory as aliased in the http.zm ...

Bump for the best way to do this. Thanks

cordel: Answers below, thanks. I would really like to be able to "port" all ZM data files to /zm, if possible. I could then replace hard drives (or better still, logical volumes) at will (by copying the old files over to the new LVM first) AND even replace the OS (i.e., /var directory), without ...

No, not correct. You appear to be cascading links. You should remove the existing link to events in /usr/share/zoneminder and recreate that link to point directly to your /zm/events assuming of course it's setup how I think it is. ZM_DIR_EVENTS can only relate to the web root, not the system root ...

You should only have to move the events directory and symlink to it from where the zm php files reside whether they are in /usr/share/zm or /var/www/html/zm, etc. cordel: Thanks, can you be more specific?? Does it matter what your cwd is when you issue the ln command? (Sorry but the man page for ln ...

I followed SlovakJoe's example as well and it appears to be proper, i.e., ls -alh lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 10 2008-10-20 17:37 events -> /zm/events but ZM Console STILL says 78% full (i.e., 78% happens to be the percentage full of /var) df -h /dev/mapper/xxx-var 12G 8.8G 2.5G 78% /var /dev ...

What I did was setup an LVM just for storing the events. That's the bulk of ZM's data anyways. I have this LVM mounted in /media/zm. To link ZM to it I simply created the following link /var/www/zm/events -> /media/zm Now ZM saves all the events to the LVM. Here's my blog posting about how great ...

Well, I just found a post on moving the image/events directories ... this should be good enough for now. http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12202 Maybe I just don't understand symbolic links ... but this didn't really do anything but move the parent directory over -- the files still ...

Well, I just found a post on moving the image/events directories ... this should be good enough for now.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12202

Hello, apologies up front if this has been asked/answered -- I did not find it. Running ZM 1.23.x on Debian Etch. Works great. I simply want to put all streaming/video/etc into a different directory -- for example /zm instead of /var/www/zm (/zm is actually an LVM setup specifically for zm's ...