Installing ZoneMinder 1.22.3 under CentOS 4.4

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http://www.zoneminder.com/

ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security applications, including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child or family member or/ home monitoring and other care scenarios….

1. Disable SELinux (that’s the easy way, I know.. please provide the steps in the comment if you kept SELinux on) : Edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux

2. Install RPMforge repository : See http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

3. Install necessary packages : # yum install mysql-server mysql php-mysql mysql-devel libjpeg-devel pcre-devel subversion ffmpeg perl-Archive-Tar perl-MIME-Lite perl-MIME-tools gcc gcc-c++

In the comments you can see some people had to install the following packages as well : perl-Time-HiRes

I’m no longer using CentOS 4 so I can’t verify. Thanks for the feedback guys !

4. Start mysql and Apache : `# service mysqld start

5. Download and unzip Zoneminder : $ wget http://www.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.22.3.tar.gz $ gzip -d ZoneMinder-1.22.3.tar.gz && tar -xvf ZoneMinder-1.22.3.tar

6. Compile and install : $ ./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin $ make && make install

7. Create zm database : `$ mysql -p

CREATE DATABASE zm DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;`

8. Import data : $ mysql -p zm < /source/dir/db/zm_create.sql

9. Create user zmuser and the rights : `$ mysql -p

GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO ‘zmuser’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘zmpass’ WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 ; GRANT SELECT , INSERT , UPDATE , DELETE ON zm . * TO ‘zmuser’@‘localhost’;`

10. Make Zoneminder start at boot : # cp /source/dir/scripts/zm /etc/init.d ; chkconfig --add /etc/init.d/zm