API not working after install on fresh Buster system

[jake1164]

I did a fresh Debian 10 (Buster) install following the posted instructions.

Upon restarting apache and before doing anything else ZM is running, logs are green, however when you navigate to :
http://ip/zm/api/host/getVersion.json results in a Not Found page.

The API directory (/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api) has the following files / folders:
app build.properties build.xml composer.json CONTRIBUTING.md index.php lib README.md

Note that the host folder is missing.

Navigating to http://ip/zm/api/ results in the following CakePHP error:
URL rewriting is not properly configured on your server. 1) Help me configure it 2) I don't / can't use URL rewriting

I followed the instructions a second time on a fresh VM and had the same results.

I have found a few fragments of other issues with buster api's but no definitive resolution.

[bbunge]

I must admit that I did not check the API as I seldom use anything other than a web browser. Will try to find time to load up Debian again and see what I can find.

[JoshZ17]

I'm having the same issue. Fresh install of Buster.

[bbunge]

Looks like all the files installed with correct permissions. Cake reports rewrite not working. Looking into Apache config. Seems sim to issues we had with Ubuntu 17.10.
Will continue in the morning...old guys need sleep, too.

[girkers]

I spent a day trying buster without success and I ended up using CentOS instead.

[logicos94]

Hi,

Some issues too in https/http support:

I noticed this:

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var monitorUrl = 'https://zm.eez.fr:80/zm/index.php';

My server is behind a "nginx/proxy" with "https" protocol.
But local http Apache server listen on port "80" with "http" protocol.

"SetEnv HTTPS on" is present in my "VirtualHost" configuration.

":80" is irrelevent here.
If I remove this , It's work like expected.

Regards,

[bbunge]

Hi,

Some issues too in https/http support:

I noticed this:

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var monitorUrl = 'https://zm.eez.fr:80/zm/index.php';

My server is behind a "nginx/proxy" with "https" protocol.
But local http Apache server listen on port "80" with "http" protocol.

"SetEnv HTTPS on" is present in my "VirtualHost" configuration.

":80" is irrelevent here.
If I remove this , It's work like expected.

Regards,

But does your api work?

[bbunge]

There are some .htaccess files missing from the /usr/share/zoneminder/api directories. This may be the key to the API not working. May take me some time to figure this out as Saturday chores take preference...

[sammyke007]

Same here, fresh Debian 10 (Buster) installation and API's not working.

[Chimaera]

There are some .htaccess files missing from the /usr/share/zoneminder/api directories. This may be the key to the API not working. May take me some time to figure this out as Saturday chores take preference...

This is the answer, you need to add the following code to .htaccess in 3 places

/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    RewriteBase /zm/api
</IfModule>

[sammyke007]

Tnx Chimaera! ZMNinja is connected!

Zoneminder + ZMNinja working fine now on an old Dell Optiplex 780 SFF running Debian 10!

[jake1164]

Thanks! Now I can get my wife off my back about how I broke the cameras.

[david1234]

I have the same problem using v 1.34
where do I need to add the code part?
do I need to create .htaccess file?
and then write into it the code?

this is what I have in this library

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ ls -lstra /usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot/
total 28
4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3006 Jun  6 18:07 test.php
4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3170 Jun  6 18:07 index.php
4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root  372 Jun  6 18:07 favicon.ico
4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:38 img
4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:38 css
4 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:38 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:38 .

can you exaplin what did you do ?

Thanks ,

[martinjr85]

There are some .htaccess files missing from the /usr/share/zoneminder/api directories. This may be the key to the API not working. May take me some time to figure this out as Saturday chores take preference...

This is the answer, you need to add the following code to .htaccess in 3 places

/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    RewriteBase /zm/api
</IfModule>

Thanks Chimaera! This worked on my Pi 4 running Zoneminder 1.32.3 for Raspbian

[david1234]

where are the

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.htaccess

files?
I can't see them
when I searc them I get empty response

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo find /usr/share/zoneminder/ -name .htaccess
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

?
Thanks ,