How to install ZoneMinder, v1.31.44. on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Install Zoneminder
Please refer Connor's web site
Open the terminal and run following commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-master
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install zoneminder

sudo su

rm /etc/mysql/my.cnf

cp /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf

gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

add the following line at 32

sql_mode = NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

systemctl restart mysql

Create Zoneminder database in MySQL (Note: this also creates the default Zoneminder user and permissions in MySQL)

mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql
mysql -uroot -p -e "grant all on zm.* to 
'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';"

mysqladmin -uroot -p reload

chmod 740 /etc/zm/zm.conf

chown root:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf

adduser www-data video

a2enmod cgi

a2enconf zoneminder

a2enmod rewrite

chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/

systemctl enable zoneminder

service zoneminder start

Add timezone to PHP

gedit /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

edit line 939 with your timezone

 

Then save the file php.ini

Your time zone can be get from here 

Adding cambozola.jar to the directory /usr/share/zoneminder/www/
Download the latest cambozola and extract to the Downloads directory 
of your PC
Then copy the cambozola.jar to the directory 
/usr/share/zoneminder/www/
On the ubuntu terminal run 
sudo cp /home/bkjaya1952/Downloads/cambozola-latest/cambozola-0.936/dist/cambozola.jar
 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/

Open zoneminder web console (http://localhost/zm/)

It was observed in ZM-Console,  the monitor adding editing Deleting  buttons are
not working. This is due to the default setting in  /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf
This problem can be solved by editing the zoneminder.conf file as follows.
Open the terminal and run following commands
(In ZoneMinder, v1.31.45 this error has been rectified)

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf


Add following lines at 13 and 14 as shown in the above figure and save
 
AllowOverride All 
Require all granted


Then to restart Apache

sudo service apache2 reload

Then open the ZM-Console and restart zoneminder



Now you can see all the buttons in zm-console are working.
In my case ,I have added an usb camera as shown in the following figures
 

Adding USB camera

Adding USB camera


ZM- Console after adding the camera

Camera view


Facility to add storage areas


Reference - Zoneminder forums