API not working after install on fresh Buster system

kitkat · Post by **kitkat** » Sun Dec 19, 2021 10:42 am

david1234 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:07 am where are the
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.htaccess
files?
I can't see them
when I searc them I get empty response
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo find /usr/share/zoneminder/ -name .htaccess
pi@raspberrypi:~ $
?
Thanks ,

There aren't any in the default distribution so they'll need to be created manually with nano or vim or something.

david1234 · Post by **david1234** » Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:21 pm

OK
this is what I have done:

1. created 3 file caled ".htaccess" in all 3 places

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/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot

2. In all of them I wrote this configuration?

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    RewriteBase /zm/api
</IfModule>

3. reboot apache2 and zonminder service

4. zoneminder is working (get video and monitor is running)

but this is what I get

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo curl -X POST http://10.0.0.113/zm/api/getVersion.json
{
    "code": 404,
    "name": "Controller class GetVersionController could not be found.",
    "message": "Controller class GetVersionController could not be found.",
    "url": "\/zm\/api\/getVersion.json"
}pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo curl -X POST http://10.0.0.113/zm/host/api/getVersion.json
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.38 (Raspbian) Server at 10.0.0.113 Port 80</address>
</body></html>

do I need to change anything else? another file?

Thanks ,

david1234 · Post by **david1234** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 3:09 pm

anyone know?

kitkat · Post by **kitkat** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 3:22 pm

Make sure that overrides are enabled in the httpd/Apache config file - They aren't by default in my copy here on CentOS.

Make a backup of the current conf:

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cp -p /etc/zm/www/zoneminder.conf /etc/zm/www/zoneminder.conf~

Open the original in a text editor and look for this block:

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Alias /zm "/usr/share/zoneminder/www"
<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www">
    # explicitly set index.php as the only directoryindex
    DirectoryIndex disabled
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    SSLRequireSSL
    Options -Indexes +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
       # Apache 2.4
       Require all granted
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
        # Apache 2.2
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

Change the line that says AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All and then save the file and restart Apache.

david1234 · Post by **david1234** » Thu Dec 23, 2021 7:03 am

I don't have this file
how could it be ?

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cp -p /etc/zm/www/zoneminder.conf /etc/zm/www/zoneminder.conf~   
cp: cannot stat '/etc/zm/www/zoneminder.conf': No such file or directory

this is what I have:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -lstrah /etc/zm/
total 40K
4.0K -rwxr-----   1 root www-data 1.8K Feb 11  2019 zm.conf
4.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4.0K Nov  1 12:40 conf.d
 16K -rw-r--r--   1 root root      15K Nov  1 12:40 core.php
4.0K drwxr-xr-x   3 root root     4.0K Nov  1 12:40 .
 12K drwxr-xr-x 126 root root      12K Nov  1 13:29 ..

do you mean to change the zm.conf?

darkwolf · Post by **darkwolf** » Mon Mar 31, 2025 4:49 pm

I found this thread useful so.. I registered to contribute an addition that completed my API setup. Here's what worked for me. Yes, I'm using the later release Bookworm and it seems it needed some extra configurations noted here from Buster.

1. Installed Debian Bookworm on a Raspi, followed bookwork guide here https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/la ... 2-bookworm

2. Created the .htaccess files in the 3 locations as noted in page one of this thread

3. Enabled auth and api in the zoneminder options, wrote some random text in the hash field

4. Test API curl, NO GO! error 404. Found some web site saying I must enable the rewrite module. INTERESTING! The instructions for Bookworm have you enable the cgi module but not rewrite. After enabling rewrite, restarting the service.. API WORKS! ZmNinja WORKS! I guess the command didn't get copied or it was expected rewrite was already enabled. In my case using the latest Bookworm from the pi imager on a raspi 5, seems this step was needed.

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

This was brought to my attention here https://wiki.zoneminder.com/API

" Also make sure the appropriate apache modules are enabled (a2enmod rewrites, a2enmod cgi, and there are some others, see wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian)."

Also that page is informative in explaining that the getversion file does not actually exist, that the server builds the reply so.. if you go looking around in your web folders and don't find files in the API dir.. thats normal, the file does NOT exist, does not need to. The server generates the web page when you try to navigate to the URL with what looks like a file but is not actually a file. COOL!

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