Debian 8 vs 7

[TheBearAk]

I was having a heck of a time getting ZM to work on Debian 8. Actually, it was working, but the web monitor display was not.

I followed a couple of different how-to's and neither solved the issue.

To explain the issue a little better...

ZM (using debian install) would install, the configuration pages in the web interface worked fine, but clicking "Montage" or "Cycle" gave me blanks where the video should show.
ZM would record and the pictures/videos would look fine when view directly from the directories.


Frustrated with trying to resolve the issue, I decided to test ZM on debian 7.x. I had a 2nd hard drive, so I installed debian 7 with apache2 and then installed ZM and it works perfectly. I've not gone back to the debian 8 install to see if I can resolve it, so for now it is Deb7.

[mustangmanbiffy]

I'm finding that Debian 8.1 is having the same issue for me as well.
Has anyone gotten the video to display in the web feed with Debian 8?

[mustangmanbiffy]

I figured out what my issue was. With the default configuration from the ZoneMinder install, the stream was pointing to myZMHost/cgi-bin/nph-zms and the auto-generated apache configuration in zoneminder.conf had set the ZoneMinder cgi-bin directory to be aliased to myZMHost/zm/cgi-bin.
I got it to work by just moving the nph-zms and zms files to the directory that the web directory /cgi-bin was pointing too. Hopefully I remember this when I go to upgrade ZoneMinder next!

[knight-of-ni]

That sounds like a packaging issue. You may want to contact the package maintainer.