When you use the Ubuntu package manager to install Zoneminder on Ubuntu 14.04 using the PPA, one configuration line defaults to the wrong path. This prevents the web console from showing you videos or events, although if you configure a camera it will capture pictures from it correctly and show you them in the Zone editing tools.
Specifically, under Options->Paths you need to change PATH_ZMS to:
/zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms
(adding the /zm to the front).
Error log messages look like the following:
ERR [socket_sendto( /var/run/zm/zms-299592s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory]
One other issue that could cause similar behavior is not having mod-cgi enabled in apache.
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Ah! Same here actually! Man I had just about had it with ZoneMinder, I followed the Ubuntu 16.04 instructions from their site EXACTLY and it never would work. Just added /zm and it worked right away.
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That was my problem also. Thanks so much!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much. It has been weeks of on/off searching trying to get ZoneMinder to work on Ubuntu 16. Thank you!
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You, sir, are awesome! Thank you!
Thank you so much! Been trying for so many hours trying to get this to work.
thank you…this is such a popular problem for many of us, yet I have been searching forever until I found your post here. Happy new year to you.
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Ugh. Tons of searching around. Finally this fixed it for me. Thanks so much for sharing.