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Hi all,
I am kind of new to both Linux and Zoneminder and I am trying to get a Camera system up and running for home.
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 with the latest updates.

I have followed many different sets of instructions which have all landed me in different places where I have just become stuck and cannot move any further forward. The furthest was finding a Forum post stating that this distro of Ubuntu shipped with Zoneminder packaged and managed to get it to install and start in Terminal. But when I tried to access the Admin panel in Firefox, I just get a 404 error. I have tried accessing with 127.0.1.1/zm, 127.0.0.1/zm and localhost/zm and none of these work. When leaving out the /zm a page appears to say the Apache server works but no files are there.

Can anyone help me, please?

If you have a nice and clean installation of some kind of buntu and not messed around too much this will do da job.
The installlation package does not do the apache config of the virtual host.
Then u got the installation.
The tricky thing is to get the camera working atleast if there is an USB-camera.
/Ice


install zm with:
sudo apt-get install zoneminder
edited ( was not done by the package ) /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default before line </VirtualHost>

Alias /zoneminder "/usr/share/zoneminder/"
<Directory>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Then u got http://127.0.0.1/zoneminder or what ever hostname, IP your machine has (example by localhost).

i have tried all of these in terminal. and both 'Edited' and 'Alias' are unknown commands... I am to include these? Sorry for being such a noob!

right, after much messing about, I am now able to gain access to the Console to set up new monitors/zones. I cannot however see these...
I found somewhere that to test the signal from the camera one should use Xawtv. I installed this and the input source was fine and I have used the Zoneminder documentation to help, but still cannot see the input via Zoneminder..

Can someone tell me where to go to monitor both singally and in montage? and maybe some idea on how to get this working?!


Thanks

I'm really very hesitate to say anything other then read through the documentation thoroughly. But: On your ZM console page check for a preconfigured monitor. There will be a single entry under "name, function, source". Click on the source tab and configure your camera. If not then single click on "Add New Monitor" and configure it per the documentation. This should start you but I would highly recommend that you go over to Linuxtracker.org and get one of RDMelin's live CD's (category: Zoneminder; ZMLiveCD 1.23.3 and ZMLinuxOS 2008.7 are very user friendly and rock solid) and look how he's done it so successfully. Also notice that when you do open the source window that in the upper right hand corner is the option "presets", this can help out greatly in setting up what you've got.