Added 2 more cameras - working live view but no event video?

Dirky · Post by **Dirky** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:45 pm

Hi,
I have added 2 more cameras today. I had 1 network camera and 1 comp
video camera, now - this setup worked fine.
I have added 2 more comp video cameras to my existing 4 port capture card.
Live view of all cameras works fine but when I click to play an event on one of the new cameras, there is no image showing? Clicking on stills just
shows place holders for the missing images? Any clues please?

I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 and zoneminder 1.22.3 compiled from source.

Thanks for any help.

Mike

Dirky · Post by **Dirky** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:35 am

Silly me!
www-data user did not have permission on the events directory so it could not
create the image files etc.

BTW, should I have my events folder outside the www directory? Will this work?

Thanks
Mike

Post by **cordel** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:43 pm

Yes you can, but it's a bit of a pain. In order to view the jpg images through the web, the events folder still needs to be seen as under the web root. This can be done in apache configuration.

The easiest way to to move the directory to where you want it and link to it, though you might still have to adjust the apache config to FollowSymLinks for at least the directory the zm web pages are in if not the whole web root.