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What did I miss? I get the "well known" error that writing to socket failed.

Googling suggests a lot of solutions, but most seem to relate to incorrect ScriptAlias or folder ownership.

Since I can watch live video this should mean that the ScriptAlias problem does not apply: nph-zms is correctly found and executed for live video.

All necessary folders seem to have write access for www-data (since I installed from Jeesie repository I guess it should).

I also noted that thumbnails and stills do not show.

Where do I start looking?

I have an almost fresh install on Debian Jessie, monitors are working, live video and montage works, it has recorded a few events. (I had ZM 1.25 up and running on Wheezy, however my attempt to upgrade to Jessie failed with some error around libc that I didn't manage to fix so I did a fresh install.)

You did not say what install procedure you used. So, here is the current one from the WIKI

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_8.1_ ... e_Easy_Way

I've noticed that someone has made changes to the procedure so I will run the install to make sure it still works.

bb

I looked at both that one and the one i /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian.gz.

I did however do the alternative apache install as in the README (where zoneminder resides as http://host insted of http://host/zm). And I also set it up with ssl (so my ZM is at https://host/ with a redirect from http to https so I just have to enter the hostname in my browser to reach it).

But it seems as if it is working now, for new events I can play back the event and thumbnails show. Strange though that it does not work for the first events. The jpegs in the event folders seemed to be correctly recorded.

Well, I'll just delete those events and hope it was some kind of glitch that solved itself by restarting zoneminder and apache.

I updated the how to in the WIKI. Changed the way the database is installed by using a password file instead of the database password in the command line (more secure?).
Make sure you change PATH_ZMS to /zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms

bb

Nope, since my ZM is in the www root the path shall be /cgi-bin/nph-zms No /zm/ in my installation, the machine will only be used for zm.