Brand new install, "forbidden" at localhost/zm

[Jim March]

I just did a brand new install of Fedora 13 and followed the directions at:

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... _12_and_13

I get "forbidden" trying to get to the basic console.

Please...short term, I need to know what to fix for this problem but more importantly, is there a set of installation instructions that work? From top to bottom? I don't care which distro, I'm absolutely desperate, I've tried before and failed to get a working ZM system.

Is there an official installation guide that tells you what permissions need to be set, and where?

Or is total mastery of Apache and MySQL simply assumed for anybody wanting to deal with ZM?

Sigh...

[Jim March]

OK...turns out it didn't save somehow at step 14:

(14) Edit as root /etc/httpd/conf.d/zoneminder.conf to remove the 'Deny from All' line. It even says 'DELETE THIS LINE', so it should be easy to find. Save it.

So now I don't get a permissions failure...I get a blank screen (literally, *nothing*?) at:

http://localhost/zm/

What the heck?

[Jim March]

Update: this is blank too:

http://localhost/zm/index.php

[Jim March]

Solved via comment 1 at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556166

At /etc/php.ini, change short_open_tag to On.

Again: there is NO such thing as a complete install guide to ZM. Anywhere. Sigh.

I frackin hate Zoneminder. I detest it with all my being. I wish it would go away one day and get replaced by something sane. Gag.

[bb99]

[18] Last thing - edit the SECOND entry of short_open_tag down at line 229. Again as root (menu-Application::System Tools::Terminal), gedit /etc/php.ini

Change short_open_tag from 'off' to 'on'

[19] reboot. open browser, type 'localhost/zm'

From the very step by step you were using. You must have gotten in a hurry...