Operation system: ubuntu 16.04
Runs in a VWWare Player
I installed Lamp with apache2, php, mysql and it works just fine.
then I installed phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
This installs a lot, but if I open the browser with localhost/phpmyadmin I get the 404 Error: Page not found.
I searched for other ways: I was told to just copy the phpmyadmin.***.tar file to the document_root folder. This works, but I don't have access to the Database. I get the User/PWD Dialog but I haven't set anything, so I don't know the password
I would like to get some help on the "sudo install phpmyadmin" way, which seems to me to be the right one.
Regards Martin
I read about some changes up from ubuntu 13
The following did the trick:
sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf
sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin
sudo service apache2 restart
After that I could open localhost/phpmyadmin (But I forgot the password)
So I removed phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get remove --purge phpmyadmin
and simply reinstalled it:
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
User name is phpmyadmin and the password has to be set during the installation
I would highly suggest installing this manually so it's up to date and as secure as possible.
cd to webroot
IE: cd /var/www/html
wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.7.7/phpMyAdmin-4.7.7-all-languages.zip && unzip phpMyAdmin-4.7.7-all-languages.zip
Make sure unzip + wget are installed.
apt-get install wget unzip
I also suggest renaming the phpmyadmin dir.
mv phpMyAdmin-4.7.7-all-languages random-name-here
have you tried root with no password? Sorry I'm not allowed to add this as comment.
I have just installed Debian Lenny with Apache, MySQL, and PHP and I am receiving a PDOException could not find driver.
This is the specific line of code it is referring to:
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=' . DB_HOST . ';dbname=' . DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASS)
DB_HOST, DB_NAME, DB_USER, and DB_PASS are constants that I have defined. It works fine on the production server (and on my previous Ubuntu Server setup).
Is this something to do with my PHP installation?
Searching the internet has not helped, all I get is experts-exchange and examples, but no solutions.
You need to have a module called pdo_mysql. Looking for following in phpinfo(),
pdo_mysql
PDO Driver for MySQL, client library version => 5.1.44
The dsn in your code reveals you are trying to connect with the mysql driver. Your error message indicates that this driver is unavailable.
Check that you have the mysql extension installed on your server.
In Ubuntu/Debian you check for the package with:
dpkg --get-selections | grep php | grep mysql
Install the php5-mysql package if you do not have it.
In Ubuntu/Debian you can use:
PHP5: sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
PHP7: sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql
Lastly, to get it working, you will need to restart your web-server:
Apache: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Nginx: sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Update: newer versions should use php-sqlite3 package instead of php5-sqlite. So use this, if you are using a recent ubuntu version:
sudo apt-get install sqlite php-sqlite3
Original answer to question is here:
sudo apt-get install sqlite php5-sqlite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If your phpinfo() is not showing the pdo_sqlite line (in my case, on my Ubuntu Server), you just need to run the lines above and then you'll be good to go.
For newer versions of Ubuntu that have PHP 7.0 you can get the php-mysql package:
sudo apt-get install php-mysql
Then restart your server:
sudo service apache2 restart
I had the same issue. The solution depends on OS. In my case, i have debian, so to solve it:
Updated my php version from (php5 to php7)
Install php-mysql and php7.0-mysql
apt-get install php-mysql
apt-get install php7.0-mysql
I edited my php.ini locate at /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
uncomment the line : extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
Then restart apache:
service apache2 restart
This solves my problem
On my Windows machine, I had to give the absolute path to the extension dir in my php.ini:
extension_dir = "c:\php5\ext"
Check if the module is available with php -m | grep pdo_mysql.
If not, for PHP 7.2, you can install relevant package with sudo apt install php7.2-mysql.
Use similar command on other PHP versions and package managers.
On Ubuntu just execute
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install php-mysql
worked well on ubuntu and php 7
When adding these into your php.ini ensure the php_pdo.dll reference is first before the db drivers dlls otherwise this will also cause this error message too. Add them like this:
[PHP_PDO]
extension=php_pdo.dll
[PHP_PDO_MYSQL]
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
for Windows 8.1/10 in :\\php.ini file you should uncomment line "extension=pdo_mysql"
Did you check your php.ini (check for the correct location with phpinfo()) if MySQL and the driver is installed correctly?
For PHP 5.5 on CentOS I fixed this by installing the php55-mysqlnd package.
sudo yum -y install php55w-mysqlnd # For Webtatic
sudo yum -y install php55u-mysqlnd # For Remi
For help installing, write a comment as it depends on the way PHP is installed on your system. Available repo's are webtatic and remi.
Check if extension_dir in php configuration file set correctly. Try to comment/uncomment some extensions and see if it's reflected on phpinfo().
If it doesn't then either php config file cannot be loaded (wrong location) extension_dir is commented or set to the wrong location.
In my case my DSN string was incorrect, specifically it did not contain mysql://. I would have expected a different error message, perhaps something like 'DSN string does not specify driver/protocol.'
Adding mysql:// to the beginning of the DSN string resolved the issue.
I had the same problem during running tests with separate php.ini. I had to add these lines to my own php.ini file:
[PHP]
extension = mysqlnd.so
extension = pdo.so
extension = pdo_mysql.so
Notice: Exactly in this order
I spent the last day trying to figure out why I was getting the following error. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.
The Problem:
I noticed that my PHP-CLI version was running php7.0 but php_info() (the web version) was displaying php 5.5.9. Even though php_info() said pdo was enabled, using the command line (CLI) wasn't recognizing the pdo_mysql command. It turns out that mysql was enabled for my old version but not the CLI version. All I did was install mysql for php7.0 and it was able to work.
This is what worked:
To check the version:
php -v
To install mysql for php7.0
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql
1) make sure your CLI version is the same as your web version
2) If they are different, make sure your CLI version has the mysql plug-in since it doesn't come with it as a default.
Incorrect installation of PHP was being called
I was experiencing the same problem. And I hope this would help someone who is having a similar issue as me.
Scenario
OS = Windows 10
Platform = XAMPP
PHP Version = 7 (Multiple Version seem to have been installed in the PC)
I created phpinfo.php file in the public folder and run the phpinfo() to look for the location of my php.ini file.
PHP.ini Location = c:\xampp\php\php.ini
Problem
Calling c:\xampp\htdocs> php -v returned PHP 7.2.3 but phpinfo.php showed PHP 7.2.2.
Solution
Instead of calling
php artisan migrate:install
which gave me this error, I used
c:\xampp\php\php artisan migrate:install
and it worked.
The problem is a missing php to mysql library. In CentOs i fixed it by running
# yum install php-mysql and then restarting apache with # /bin/systemctl restart httpd.service Note that the naming is slightly different from debian/ubuntu based distros, php->php5 and httpd->apache2.
I extremely recommend mysqllnd instead of mysql because of you would have a lot of problems like number converting and bit type evaluates problem with mysql extension.
on ubuntu install mysqllnd with following command:
sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd
In my case, I was using PDO with php-cli, and it worked fine.
Only when I tried to connect from apache, I got the "missing driver" issue, which I didn't quite understand.
A simple apt-get install php-mysql solved it. (Ubuntu 16.04 / PHP7. credits go to the selected answer & Ivan's comment)
Hope it can help.
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: could not find driver
I struggled and struggled with "apt install php-mysql php7toInfinity and don't forget sqlite-what-ever's" and just could not get rid of this error message until I went back to basics and reset the file-permissions on the web-site in question.
These 3 commands reset file and folder permissions on the web-site and got it to work again.
cd /var/www/web-site-name.com/web/
# find (sub) directories and change permissions
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# find files and change permissions
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 '{}' \;
I Fixed this issue on my Debian 6.
Normally I just had installed php5-common package. After installation, you have to restart your web server (apache or nginx depending on which one you installed).
Then I just do an lsof on the apache process id (lsof -p process_id) as followed :
sudo lsof -p 1399 #replace 1399 by your apache process id
apache2 1399 root mem REG 254,2 80352 227236 /usr/lib/php5/20090626/xmlrpc.so
apache2 1399 root mem REG 254,2 166496 227235 /usr/lib/php5/20090626/suhosin.so
apache2 1399 root mem REG 254,2 31120 227233 /usr/lib/php5/20090626/pdo_mysql.so
apache2 1399 root mem REG 254,2 100776 227216 /usr/lib/php5/20090626/pdo.so
apache2 1399 root mem REG 254,2 135864 227232 /usr/lib/php5/20090626/mysqli.so
As you can see above, the modules are installed on a file path not known or guided by common library path: /usr/lib/php5/20090626/. For your installation, it may be different, but only the path of pdo_mysql.so, pdo.so, mysqli.so. So, this is why Drupal or any other php engine couldn't find the library and shows that error: PDOException: could not find driver
I just don't know why it is installed on such a weird path, for me it's just a bug in the library package installation script in debian 6.
I solved the issue by creating a symbolic for all the files under /usr/lib/php5/20090626/ to
/usr/lib/php5/ with this command :
ln -s /usr/lib/php5/20090626/* /usr/lib/php5/
$DB_TYPE = 'mysql'; //Type of database<br>
$DB_HOST = 'localhost'; //Host name<br>
$DB_USER = 'root'; //Host Username<br>
$DB_PASS = ''; //Host Password<br>
$DB_NAME = 'database_name'; //Database name<br><br>
$dbh = new PDO("$DB_TYPE:host=$DB_HOST; dbname=$DB_NAME;", $DB_USER, $DB_PASS); // PDO Connection
This worked for me.
I faced the same issue after I removed the php5 package (that includes all the drivers as well) in order to install php7 package. I actually installed php7 package without a mysql module.
I managed to solve it by typing in the terminal:
1) $ apt-cache search php7
which lists all the modules, looking through the modules I found,
php7.0-mysql - MySQL module for PHP
2) $ sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql
That's it. It worked for me in my linux system.
(use the appropriate php version, yours could be php5)
Just one other thing to confirm as some people are copy/pasting example code from the Internet to get started. Make sure you have MySQL entered here:
... $dbh = new PDO ("mysql: ...
In some examples this shows
$dbh = new PDO ("dblib ...
For those using Symfony2/3 and wondering why you're getting this error. If you're using "mapping_types", you might encounter this error. The reason is that "mapping_types" is placed at the wrong level. For instance :
doctrine:
dbal:
mapping_types:
set: string
This "mapping_types" must be placed at this level :
doctrine:
dbal:
#To counter the error caused by 'mapping_types'
connections:
default:
server_version: %database_server_version%
mapping_types:
set: string
I hope this helps
I found the solution here : https://github.com/doctrine/DoctrineBundle/issues/327
Everywhere I go I read that the path of extension_dir should be changed from ext to an absolute path. It worked for me. However, when trying to build a server of my colleague's PC, I had to let the value to ext instead of putting an absolute path.
If you did put an absolute path and it does the extension is still not found, considerer trying both with the absolute path and ext.
Check correct path in extension_dir in you phpinfo().
Had the same issue, because I forgot to go into my virtual machine. If I go to my local directory like this:
cd /www/homestead/my_project
php artisan migrate
that error will appear. But it works on my virtual machine
cd ~/homestead
vagrant ssh
cd /www/homestead/my_project
php artisan migrate
This error is being shown whenever I want to install any software via command line.
Even if i try to install softwares which I know are present at the source from where I am downloading.
Below is the full error message i am getting :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mysql-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'mysql-server' has no installation candidate
It worked for me.
If you have followed all the previous steps successfully and after running sudo apt-get install mysql-server you are getting an error then try this
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server
I experienced this issue when trying to install MySQL Server on Debian 10.
Here's how I fixed it:
The issue is caused by the MySQL server apt repository not being included in your system's software repository list. In Debian 10 for example, MariaDB, a community fork of the MySQL project, is packaged as the default MySQL variant.
So to fix this first, add the MySQL server apt repository to your system's software repository list. Follow these steps:
Go to the download page for the MySQL APT repository at:
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/
Select and download the release package for your Linux distribution. You can use:
sudo wget https://the-download-link
In my case it was:
sudo wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.15-1_all.deb
Install the downloaded release package with the following command, replacing version-specific-package-name with the name of the downloaded package (preceded by its path, if you are not running the command inside the folder where the package is):
sudo dpkg -i version-specific-package-name.deb
In my case it was:
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.15-1_all.deb
Note: dpkg is used to install, remove, and inspect .deb software packages. The -i flag indicates that we’d like to install from the specified file.
During the installation, you’ll be presented with a configuration screen where you can specify which version of MySQL you’d prefer, along with an option to install repositories for other MySQL-related tools. The defaults will add the repository information for the latest stable version of MySQL and nothing else. This is what we want, so use the down arrow to navigate to the Ok menu option and hit ENTER.
You'll also be asked to select a repository to add. Choose 'debian buster' which has the package 'mysql-server' in it. After the adding this repository you can update the repository and use the below command to install MySQL.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
The package will now finish adding the repository. Refresh your apt package cache to make the new software packages available:
sudo apt update
Note: If you ever need to update the configuration of these repositories, just run sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-apt-config, select new options, and then sudo apt-get update to refresh your package cache.
Install MySQL by the following command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
Note: This installs the package for the MySQL server, as well as the packages for the client and for the database common files. During the installation, you are asked to supply a password for the root user for your MySQL installation.
The MySQL server is started automatically after installation. You can check the status of the MySQLserver with the following command:
sudo service mysql status
Stop the MySQL server with the following command:
sudo service mysql stop
To restart the MySQL server, use the following command:
sudo service mysql start
MySQL creates a default user called root. You can change the password to any password of your choice by logging in to MySQL console using socket authentication:
sudo mysql -u root
Then run the command below to change the password
ALTER USER 'root'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'your-preferred-password';
Reference:
A Quick Guide to Using the MySQL APT Repository
How To Install the Latest MySQL on Debian 10
That's all.
I hope this helps
You can install mysql by
sudo apt install default-mysql-server
--------
sudo service mysql status
● mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.3.31 database server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-02-09 13:19:33 +08; 33s ago
Docs: man:mysqld(8)
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/
Main PID: 18537 (mysqld)
Status: "Taking your SQL requests now..."
Tasks: 31 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 73.1M
CGroup: /system.slice/mariadb.service
└─18537 /usr/sbin/mysqld
run:
apt install default-mysql-server
which installs MariaDB unfortunately, but still responds to service mysql status
Most likely you are running on ubuntu. It is important to run apt-get update first.
I have an old phpMyAdmin installation (contains my training and jobs data). I want to update it to the latest version and I want to keep my data safe while updating it. Is there any way to do it by running some commands on the terminal? Is my data erased if I uninstall phpMyAdmin?
Here is how to upgrade/downgrade on Ubuntu.
Note: The following instruction only works if you previously (and correctly) installed phpMyAdmin with the command line and use APACHE as a web server.
I suppose that you already have a working phpMyAdmin, but the version isn't the one you want. For instance, Ubuntu is shipping the 4.6.x version which doesn't work properly with PHP 7.2.
Check the version you want on:
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/files/
On your server
cd /usr/share/
rm -rf phpmyadmin
then adapt this line with the correct version number
wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.8.0/phpMyAdmin-4.8.0-all-languages.zip
unzip phpMyAdmin-4.8.0-all-languages.zip
rm phpMyAdmin-4.8.0-all-languages.zip
mv phpMyAdmin-4.8.0-all-languages phpmyadmin
Note: If unzip don't work, install it with: sudo apt-get install unzip
Check permissions
Now you should be good.
The owner of /usr/share/phpmyadmin should be root:root on a default installation. This should be fine but if you face some permissions issues, you can try to let Apache be the owner:
# only if you have permissions issues
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/phpmyadmin
chmod -R 755 /usr/share/phpmyadmin
You can also restart Apache
sudo service apache2 reload
Troubleshooting
Note: Depending on your PHP version, you may need to install additional libraries.
For example, to resolve the error about missing mysqli and mysql extensions (update the command to reflect your PHP version):
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql
phpmyadmin is mysql client, so it will not affect your database if you uninstall phpmyadmin.
I update phpmyadmin by using terminal commands:
First you have to add repository to get phpmyadmin :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nijel/phpmyadmin;
and then update it to get the latest version of software in repositories :
sudo apt-get update;
after that, you can get it (install, you need to uninstall the older version first if you have) :
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin;
Oh, make sure you are connected to the internet
Using ubuntu? i think it will be better if you ask it in ubuntu forum.
may it helps
------ UPDATE -------
If you find the phpmyadmin version you get from ppa is not the latest one, you can find the latest version here and install it manually (not from repo).
Downloaded phpmyadmin can be installed in /var/www/html/ or in your working directory (public_html or something you've defined). Just extract the zip and move extracted folder to /var/www/html/. And don't forget to change the permission of the phpmyadmin folder to 777(it may not safe, but works fine).
Here is the how:
extract downloaded file
unzip phpMyAdmin-4.6.6-all-languages.zip
move to /var/www/html/, you might need sudo.
if you're not sudoer, move it into your working directory (e.g. public_html), and rename the folder to 'phpmyadmin'
sudo mv phpMyAdmin-4.6.6-all-languages /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
change the permission
sudo chmod 777 -R /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
and then you can access phpmyadmin via http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
If you put the phpmyadmin in public_html, you might want to create a symlink into it from /var/www/html, so you can access phpmyadmin as usual.
phpMyAdmin is only client for MySQL database, it doesn't contain your data. It's all saved in database, so nothing will be deleted even if you delete phpMyAdmin.
To update phpMyAdmin from repository you can follow steps from this thread.
1- check your phpmyadmin version from GUI.
2- Download Latest version of phpMyAdmin HERE
Use the below command to download the latest version of phpMyAdmin into /opt or /usr/src directory
# wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.8.3/phpMyAdmin-4.8.3-all-languages.zip
Notes to install unzip package: apt-get install unzip
# unzip phpMyAdmin-4.8.3-all-languages.zip
3- Find phpMyAdmin Installation Directory
Use the below command to search the phpMyAdmin Installation Directory on your system
# /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
4- Remove/Delete phpMyAdmin content
/usr/share/phpmyadmin is correct phpMyAdmin installation directory, Just Delete/Remove everything from that directory
# cd /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/
# rm -Rf *
5- Move/Copy New phpMyAdmin content
Use the below command to copy all the new phpMyAdmin content to /usr/share/phpmyadmin.
# cd /opt/phpMyAdmin-4.8.3-all-languages
# mv * /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/
6- Restart Apache, MySQL or MariaDB service.
Start/Restart the service in SysVinit Systeme
# service restart httpd
# service restart mysql
Start/Restart the service in Systemd Systeme
# systemctl restart httpd.service
# systemctl restart mariadb.service
7- Now Check New version of phpMyAdmin
Navigate your browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, Now you are using latest version 4.8.3 of phpMyAdmin.
Reference
sudo su
cd /usr/share/
rm -rf phpmyadmin
wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.8.4/phpMyAdmin-4.8.4-all-languages.zip
unzip phpMyAdmin-4.8.4-all-languages.zip
mv phpMyAdmin-4.8.4-all-languages phpmyadmin
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/phpmyadmin
chmod -R 755 /usr/share/phpmyadmin
sudo service apache2 reload
Because doing this:-
sudo apt-get remove --purge zoneminder
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo apt-get remove --purge apache2*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo rm -r /var/www/*
sudo rm -r /etc/apache2/*
sudo rmdir /var/www
sudo rmdir /etc/apache2
sudo rm -r /opt/zm
sudo rm /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
sudo dpkg --configure -a
reboot hardware
sudo apt-get install zoneminder
produces this error:-
* Starting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.4.6-1ubuntu1.4) ...
Creating config file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini with new version
* Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]
Setting up apache2 (2.2.22-6ubuntu2.3) ...
Setting up zoneminder (1.25.0-1.1ubuntu1) ...
Starting ZoneMinder: Can't open config file '/opt/zm/etc/zm.conf': No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 100
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 100.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 37.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 37.
failure
invoke-rc.d: initscript zoneminder, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing zoneminder (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
zoneminder
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Originally zoneminder installed "first time" Ok on this 32bit "mint 14" machine using just the single apt-get install zoneminder command from here:-
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/build-your-own-surveillance-zoneminder
but when I tried to upgrade a couple of days ago to version 1.26.2 by compiling manually, I messed it up.
How can I remove zoneminder completely so that the original "clean" install works again?
No need to do any of the above, from this link:-
http://pjpramod.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/starting-zoneminder-cant-open-config.html
So I did this:-
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/*
and then the install completes OK - but the popups no longer work (don't open at all or open in the same window), so don't do that.
Finally I abandoned re-installing the pre-built package (1.25.0 - or was it 1.25.2?) and downloaded the 1.26.3 tar file and unpacked it and cd'ed into it...
...and ./configure was missing...
...but if you run bootstrap.sh
./bootstrap.sh
then that (and some other things) magically appear.
Then did this:
sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/zm --with-mysql=/usr --with-ffmpeg=/usr --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --disable-debug --disable-crashtrace --enable-mmap=yes --with-webdir=/var/www --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl
and it configured OK.
then this
sudo make
followed by this:-
sudo make install
and it installed OK but when I tried to run zoneminder I got database errors so did something like this to delete zm:-
mysql -uroot -pyourPassWord
mysql > drop database zm;
mysql > quit;
and this to recreate it (I know nothing about databases, this is monkey-see, monkey-do from here):-
mysql -u root -pyourPassWord
>create database zm;
>exit
mysql -u root -pyourPassWord zm < db/zm_create.sql
mysql -u root -pyourPassWord zm
>grant select,insert,update,delete on zm.* to 'zmuser'#localhost identified by 'zmpass';
>quit
mysqladmin -u root -pyourPassWord reload
and it then worked OK (I am running zm like this:-)
sudo /etc/init.d/zm start
And while trying to figure out what link between apache and zm did (and how apache works etc) I discovered that you only need to do this:-
localhost/index.php
to bring up zoneminder, working OK, in my browser - Yee Haw! Not bad for two day's effort and one divorce.
But I could only get zmpkg.pl to work by doing this:-
sudo /opt/zm/bin/zmpkg.pl
and not this:-
sudo zmpkg.pl
Because, I learn, that that $PATH is defined "globally" for sudo and therefore my adding /opt/zm/bin in my .bashrc file had no effect so then, rather than put zmpkg.pl into /usr/local/sbin (or one of those paths in "global" $PATH) I insert a link instead like this:-
sudo ln -s /opt/zm/bin/zmpkg.pl /usr/local/sbin/zmpkg.pl
and it works! so now e.g.
sudo zmpkg.pl status
works again.
Does anyone know how all this should be done? E.g. so that
localhost/zm
works again?
Update on 20th December 2013: I just upgraded to verion 1.26.5 successfully on this mint 14 system by repeating some of the above instructions i.e.
1) Stop zoneminder.
2) Download version 1.26.5
3) Ran the ./bootstrap.sh script (as mentioned above).
4) Ran the ./configure... script (as mentioned above).
5) Ran the make (as mentioned above - but got errors)...
So I read the README and copied and pasted this from it (line 24):
root#host:~# aptitude install -y apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql build-essential libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev libdbi-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libmime-perl libpcre3 libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm subversion automake autoconf libjpeg8-dev libjpeg8 apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli libphp-serialization-perl libgnutls-dev libjpeg8-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavutil-dev libv4l-dev libtool ffmpeg libnetpbm10-dev libavdevice-dev libmime-lite-perl dh-autoreconf dpatch;
and then did a
sudo make clean
and then repeated 4) and 5) above and it compiled OK.
6) Did the "sudo make install" OK (i.e. on top of the old version I guess).
7) Then did all the rest of the "as mentioned above" instructions to delete zm from the database (after trying to zm unsuccessfully) and re-inserted it and then it started OK via the "zmpkg.pl start" script as version 1.26.5
8) As before I then had to manually reset up all cameras and password and users and zones but at least it all worked "first time"
I would suggest that you have to uninstall all the packages which include LAMP(apache, mysql, php) and zoneminder.
use this command to remove these packages.
sudo aptitude purge <pkg-name>
Then you have to go to zoneminder manual installation directory (say /usr/src). and use command
sudo make clean
sudp updatedb
After this you can start normal install procedure.