I tried to redo some install steps- at step 3
ran onto a problem-
dan@ACER:~$ sudo a2enconf zoneminder
ERROR: Conf zoneminder does not exist!
step 4 says "As of Oct 3 2015, zm.conf is not readable by ZM. This is likely a bug and will go away in the next package"
so tried it
dan@ACER:~$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf
no help-
dan@ACER:~$ sudo a2enconf zoneminder
ERROR: Conf zoneminder does not exist!
however there is one-- (or maybe I'm wrong on this)
dan@ACER:/etc/zm$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 Feb 17 2015 apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1298 Oct 22 13:39 zm.conf
dan@ACER:/$ sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf in Ubuntu forum
dan@ACER:/$ sudo a2enconf zoneminder
Enabling conf zoneminder.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 reload
dan@ACER:/$ service apache2 reload
* Reloading web server apache2
continued with install:
dan@ACER:/$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
Module rewrite already enabled
dan@ACER:/$ sudo a2enmod cgi
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Module cgi already enabled