webserver and capture card on seperate hosts

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bodorange
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webserver and capture card on seperate hosts

Post by bodorange »

I have Apache and MySQL running on Debian on a Pentium 1 box, but my capture card is on another linux box. I realise I can setup zm with mysql running on seperate host but what about Apache? Is it just a matter of exporting the zm web directories to the capture PC or will it be more invovled?

Many thanks for any help,

Dean
bodorange
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Post by bodorange »

:oops:
Having read the docs properly, I see it's not really feasible to have the webserver on a seperate host. So will install apache on same box.
awebsurfer
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Joined: Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:41 pm

But you can still use the other computer...

Post by awebsurfer »

You can put the MySQL database and even the 'events' directory on another computer if you have a good network connection. I've mounted a share on my Windows 2000 Pro machine once as my event directory; this provided a nice big 20GB partition to store images on. The ZM computer only had a 4GB drive.

Another bonus of putting your events on a Windows PC (ugh): using your favorite video edit software (such as the latest version of VirtualDub), you can open up a ZM image sequence and scroll through it, or even save it as an AVI in whatever format you need.
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